Nepalota crocea, Assing, 2015
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5414155 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6632419 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA87E2-367A-FFB5-28DB-FF0EFD769587 |
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Marcus |
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Nepalota crocea |
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sp. nov. |
Nepalota crocea View in CoL nov.sp.
( Figs 96-105 View Figs 96-105 , Map 4 View Map 4 )
Type material: Holotype ♂: " CHINA [21] - Yunnan, NNE Pingbian, broad-leaved for., 23°00'39''N, 103°42'10''E, 1500 m, 26.VIII.2014, V. Assing / Holotypus ♂ Nepalota crocea sp.n. det. V. Assing 2014" ( cAss) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 11♂♂, 9♀♀: same data as holotype (cAss, MNHUB) GoogleMaps ; 16 exs.: " CHINA: Yunnan, NNE Pingbian , 23°00'39''N, 103°42'10''E, 1500 m, subtropical broadleaved forest, litter sifted, 26.VIII.2014, leg. M. Schülke [CH14-21]" (cSch, cAss) GoogleMaps .
Etymology: The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: yellow) alludes to the uniformly yellowish coloration.
Description: Body length 2.6-3.8 mm; length of forebody 1.3-1.6 mm. Coloration: body dark-yellowish, with the abdominal segment VI sometimes weakly infuscate in the middle; legs pale-yellowish; antennae reddish to reddish-brown, with the basal antennomeres often paler reddish and antennomere XI dark-yellowish.
Head ( Fig. 96 View Figs 96-105 ) transverse; dorsal surface with nearly obsolete microreticulation and glossy; punctation sparse and extremely fine. Eyes large, much longer than postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna ( Fig. 97 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately 0.9-1.0 mm long; antennomere IV weakly oblong or approximately as long as broad; antennomeres V-X of gradually increasing width and increasingly transverse; preapical antennomeres distinctly transverse, nearly 1.5 times as broad as long; antennomere XI apically acute, slightly shorter than the combined length of VIII-X.
Pronotum ( Fig. 96 View Figs 96-105 ) large and strongly transverse, 1.30-1.35 times as broad as long and 1.4-1.5 times as broad as head, without sexual dimorphism; disc with nearly obsolete microreticulation, glossy, and with extremely fine punctation.
Elytra ( Fig. 96 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately as long as pronotum; punctation dense and fine; interstices with shallow microreticulation. Hind wings fully developed.
Abdomen with very shallow transverse microsculpture; punctation very sparse and fine; tergites III and VII without sexual dimorphism.
♂: tergite VIII ( Fig. 98 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately as long as broad and with distinctly convex posterior margin; sternite VIII ( Fig. 99 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately as long as broad, slightly longer than tergite VIII, and strongly convex posteriorly; median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs 100- 101 View Figs 96-105 ) relatively small, approximately 0.38 mm long, of slender shape; paramere ( Fig. 102 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately as long as median lobe and with slender apical lobe.
♀: tergite VIII ( Fig. 103 View Figs 96-105 ) of similar shape as in male; sternite VIII ( Fig. 73 View Figs 65-74 ) weakly transverse and with broadly convex posterior margin, middle of posterior margin not concave; spermatheca ( Fig. 105 View Figs 96-105 ) approximately 0.38 mm long.
Comparative notes: This species is distinguished from its congeners by the nearly uniformly yellowish coloration of the body and by the shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus.
Distribution and natural history: The type locality ( Map 4 View Map 4 ) and the circumstances of collection are identical to those of N. fellowesi (see above). Nepalota guangdongensis was present at the same site.
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