Anomala bella Arrow, 1917

Zhao, Ming-Zhi, 2021, Contribution to the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae Rutelinae) of China and adjacent regions. Part I: descriptions of two new species and remarks on four species, Zootaxa 4903 (4), pp. 578-590 : 587

Anomala bella Arrow, 1917

( Figs. 49–53 )

Anomala bella Arrow, 1917: 208 [type designated but type locality unspecified], Plate I, fig. 9; Machatschke 1972: 124; Zorn 2006: 257; Prokofiev 2015a: 39, figs. 10–13 [recorded from North Thailand, without detailed data]; Zorn & Bezděk 2016:

330.

Type material examined. The type material was not examined by the author. Labels of the male holotype ( BMNH) were provided by Carsten Zorn (Gnoien, Germany) and transcribed here. It is labeled “ ♂ // Type H. T. Mungphu // Atkinson Coll. 92-3. // Anomala bella, Arrow Type” .

Additional material examined. CHINA: 3♂♂, 1♀ (2♂♂ CCPC, 1♂, 1♀ ZMPC), CHINA: Yunnan, Dehong Pref., Yingjiang County, Nabang Town, Nabang Eletric Station , 2013.v.9 Xiao-Dong Yang leg. ; 1♂ ( CCPC), ditto, but 2013.v.10.

Comments on type locality. Even Arrow (1917) designated type and cotypes for this species originally, the type locality was not specified by him. According to the above labels, Mungphu (currently Mungpoo in northeastern India) should be considered as type locality of this taxon.

Remarks. This species is widely distributed from northern India to northern Thailand. The male genitalia of Chinese specimens well fits those figured by Prokofiev (2015a).

Distribution. China: Yunnan (new country record); India; Myanmar; Thailand.

Figures

FIGURES 49–53. Habitus and male genitalia of Anomala bella Arrow, 1917 from Yunnan. 49, habitus of male; 50, habitus of female; 51, male genitalia in right lateral view; 52, male genitalia in left lateral view; 53, male genitalia in dorsal view.