Niphadomimus celaeno, Grebennikov, 2014

Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2014, DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China, Zootaxa 3838 (2), pp. 151-173 : 157-158

Niphadomimus celaeno sp. n.

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Diagnostic description. Holotype, male ( Figs. 3 , 11C ). Genbank accession: KJ427748 . Length: 4.17 mm. Color dark reddish; prosternal depression delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth not higher than its width at base and moderately developed; elytral interstriae evenly and pronouncedly tuberculate.

Material examined. Holotype male ( IZCAS): #2476, “P.R. CHINA, Sichuan, NE slope Gongga Shan , N29°52'10" E102°02'01", 12.vi.2011, 3620m, sift16, V.Grebennikov ”.

Distribution. Gongga Shan region in Sichuan, China; sympatrically with N. alcyone sp. n. Elevation: 3620 m.

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Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Celaeno, one of the Pleiades, mother of

Lycus and Eurypylus by Poseidon; noun in apposition.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Niphadomimus celaeno sp. n., holotype, male, #2476. A–D: habitus; E: sternites 8 and 9; F–H: aedeagus and tegmen, lateral (F), dorsal (G) and ventral (H).

FIGURE 11. Niphadomimus spp., pro, meso- and metathorax, ventral (A–G, I) and left ventro-lateral (H). A: Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n., holotype, female, #2493; B: N. alcyone sp. n., paratype, female, #4429; C: N. celaeno sp. n., holotype, male, #2476; D: N electra sp. n., paratype, female, #0879; E: N. maia sp. n., holotype, male, #2730; F: N. merope sp. n., holotype, female #2201; G: N. nigriventris, male, #0796; H: N. nigriventris, female, #4697; I: N. sterope sp. n., holotype, male, #4475.