Agetocera choui, Lee, Chi-Feng, Bezdĕk, Jan & Staines, Charles L., 2010

Lee, Chi-Feng, Bezdĕk, Jan & Staines, Charles L., 2010, A review of the genus Agetocera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) in Taiwan — are there only two species?, Zootaxa 2441, pp. 1-19 : 9-14

Agetocera choui , new species

Agetocera taiwana Chûjô, 1962: 59 (part); Kimoto, 1969: 31 (part); Kimoto, 1989: 249 (part); Takizawa et. al., 1995: 8 (part).

FIGURES 23–26. Agetocera discedens . 23. Abdominal tergite VIII; 24. spermatheca; 25. gonocoxae; 26. bursa-sclerite.

Male. Length 8.2–10.0 mm, width 4.0– 4.9 mm. Antenna similar to A. yuae . Genitalia ( Fig. 33 ) with median process extremely flattened laterally; lateral processes long and wide; endophallus with lateral spiculae short and not recurved apically.

Female. Similar to A. yuae .

Diagnosis. See the diagnosis of A. yuae . Agetocera huatungensis differs by the ventrally flattened median process, the shorter lateral processes, and the lateral spiculae being short and recurved in the male genitalia.

FIGURES 27–30. Agetocera taiwana . 27. Abdominal tergite VIII; 28. bursa-sclerites; 29. spermatheca; 30. gonocoxae.

Type material (10 specimens). Holotype 3: “C. TAIWAN: Meifeng 2130m. Nantou Hsien 5–8.VI.1980 C.C.Chen” ( TARI); paratypes: 13, same locality but with “ 2150m. 2–4.VI.1980 L.Y.Chou & C.C.Chen” ( TARI); 13, same but with “ 7–9.V.1981 K.S.Lin & S.C.Lin” ( TARI); 13, same but with “ 24–26.VI.1981 K.S.Lin & W.S. Tang” ( TARI); 13, same but with “ 8–11.V.1984 K.C.Chou & C.C.Pan” ( JBCB); 13, same but with “ 2130m. 23.VII.1985 K.S.Lin” ( TARI); 13: “C. TAIWAN: Tayuling 2560m. Hualien Hsien 9– 16.VI.1980 K.S.Lin & B.H.Chen” ( TARI); 13: “Musha, Taiwan 25vi–5vii 1947 Coll. Maa, Chen and Lin” ( TARI); 1 3: “ 18.V.1965 B.S. Chang / ( Taiwan) Meifeng Nantou Hsien / Agetocera taiwana Chûjô Det. S. Kimoto, 1967 / 1282-17748” ( NMNS); 1 3: “ Taiwan Taichung Anmashan south 2/V/1990 C.C.Chiang Sweeping net / NMNS ENT 605-186” ( NMNS).

Other material examined (6 specimens). 1Ƥ: C. TAIWAN: Meifeng 2130m. Nantou Hsien, 7–9.V.1981 K.S.Lin & S.C.Lin” ( TARI); 2ƤƤ, same but with “ 8–11.V.1984 K.C.Chou & C.C.Pan” ( TARI); 1Ƥ: “C.

TAIWAN: Tayuling 2560m. Hualien Hsien 9–16.VI.1980 K.S.Lin & B.H.Chen” ( TARI); 2ƤƤ: “ Formosa Musha (= Wushe, Nantou) 1919 V.18–VI.15. T. Okuni / Paratype (green) / Agetocera taiwana Chûjô DET. M. CHUJO / 753” ( TARI).

Distribution. Taiwan (Taichung: Anmashan; Nantou: Meifeng, Wushe; Hualien: Tayuling). Etymology. The new species is named after the late Dr. Liang-Yih Chou, who made a great contribution to the insect collection of the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute.

Figures

FIGURES 33. Agetocera choui, male genitalia, a: dorsal; b: lateral; c: ventral.