Emphania erichsoni, Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2008

Ahrens, Dirk & Fabrizi, Silvia, 2008, A taxonomic revision of the Malagasy genus Emphania Erichson, 1847 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Sericini), Zoosystema 30 (4), pp. 917-927 : 924-926

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4525859

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4525715

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1354741B-FFF8-FFB5-FCC0-55B7A5F6FE11

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Felipe

scientific name

Emphania erichsoni
status

sp. nov.

Emphania erichsoni n. sp.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: ♂ “ Madagascar A. Mocquervs 99-96.” ( BMNH).

ETYMOLOGY. — The new species is named after W. F. Erichson who established the genus Emphania in 1847.

DESCRIPTION OF HOLOTYPE

Length: 6.9 mm; length of elytra: 4.7 mm; width: 4.5 mm. Body surface brown with greenish shine. Head and antenna as in E. metallica ; clypeal surface flat; eyes, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.57; antennomeres 3-5 unfused. Pronotum and scutellum as in E. metallica ; basal marginal line of pronotum lacking. Elytra as in E. metallica , without convex semicircular declivity; intervals with fine and dense punctures that are superficially slightly longitudinally impressed. Metacoxa as in E. metallica , posteriorly produced forming a moderately sharp tooth. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa:1/2.2. Pygidium as in E. metallica . Legs as in E. metallica . Posterior legs lacking in the holotype.

Aedeagus: Figure 2 View FIG J-L.

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REMARKS

The new species differs from E. metallica in the smaller body size, the lacking posterior elytral declivity, the longitudinally impressed elytral punctures, the unfused antennomeres 3-5, and the shape of male genitalia having the parameres more elongate and weakly curved interiorly, without an apical hook.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Emphania

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