Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New

Lin, Xiao-Li, Chen, Ying, Huang, Min & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2015, A new species of the genus Meligethes Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae) from China, Zoological Systematics 40 (3), pp. 268-289 : 269-273

Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988 New record to China ( Figs 3–4 , 50–54 )

Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988: 79 .

Description. Length 2.5 mm, breadth 1.3 mm, height 0.8 mm. Body long oval, black and rather shining; head and pronotum with short and sparse grey white pubescence somewhat longer than distances among their insertions. Elytra

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289

© Zoological Systematics, 40(3): 268–289 slightly shorter than their combined width, both sides of elytra curved, sharply narrowing distad to almost transverse at apices. Prosternum gently convex along the middle, prosternal process elongated and gradually widened with apex broadly rounded, its broadened part distinctly broader than antennal club. Tegmen and median lobe (penis trunk) sclerotised, emarginated at apex of tegmen, median lobe long and slender, nearly rectangular.

Material examined. 1♂, China, Heilongjiang, Yichun , 6 June 1971, leg. Xue-Zhong Zhang.

Distribution. China (Heilongjiang), Brazil (Natal).

Figures

Figs 1–8. Habitus, ♂. 1–2. Meligethes polyedricus sp. nov. 3–4. M. alani Kirejtshuk, 1988. 5–6. M. dilutipes Easton, 1956. 7–8. M. flavimanus Stephens. Scale bars=0.5mm.

Figs 50–54. Meligethes alani Kirejtshuk, 1988, ♂. 50. Head. 51. Front tibia. 52. Prosternal process. 53. Tegmen, ventral view. 54. Medial lobe of aedeagus, ventral. Scale bar=0.5 mm.