Anomalophylla liciata, Ahrens, 2005

Ahrens, Dirk, 2005, Taxonomic revision of the genus Anomalophylla Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), Zootaxa 1076 (1), pp. 1-62 : 25-27

Anomalophylla liciata sp. n.

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Type material. Holotype: ♂ ” China pr. Yunnan b.occ. Degen 3900 m 7.6.1993 R. Cervenka lgt.” ( ZSM) . Paratypes: 3 ♂♂ ” China pr. Yunnan b.occ. Degen env. 3900–4200 m 8.6.1993 R. Cervenka lgt.” ( CA) , 1 ♂ ”CHINA­NW Yunnan, 3000 m, road Deqen­Yen Ying 30 km W of Deqen, 1997 28°32’N, 98°49’E, 23.VI. M. Trýzna & O. Šefránek lgt.” ( TICB) , 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ ” China, NW Yunnan, 3300 m road Deqen­Yanjing 30 km NW Deqen 28°32’N, 98°49’E, 23.VI.1997 Jaroslav Turna leg.” ( TICB) , 1 ♂ ” China, NW Yunnan, 3600 m road Deqen­Yanjing 10 W Deqen 28°28’N, 98°53’E, 21–22.VI.1997 Jaroslav Tirna leg.” ( TICB) , 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀ “ China, N­Yunnan Deqen SW env., 3000–3500 m 28°28’N / 98°51– 55’E 1.7. 92 L. + R. Businsky lgt.” ( NHMW, CA) .

Holotype description. Length: 5.8 mm, length of elytra: 3.5 mm, width: 2.8 mm. Body oblong, black; elytra reddish brown with broadly black borders; dorsal surface dull with long, dense, erect setae; pilosity on head and anterior pronotum black, on base of pronotum and elytra dark yellow. Head: Labroclypeus transverse, widest medially; lateral margins strongly convex, convergent anteriorly and toward base; anterior angles strongly rounded, lateral border and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle; anterior and lateral margin strongly reflexed and anterior margin moderately sinuate medially; surface almost flat medially and moderately shiny with double punctation, punctures coarse, dense with each bearing a long, erect seta mixed with fine punctures. Frontoclypeal suture distinct, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye as wide as long. Ocular canthus moderately long and slender, finely and densely punctate, densely setose. Frons with double punctation; coarse, dense punctures each bearing a long, erect seta; coarse punctures mixed with fine glabrous punctures; basal punctation less dense. Eyes small, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.48. Antenna with ten antennomeres, dark yellow; club brown with five equal in length antennomeres; club 2.5 times as long as the remaining antennomeres combined, reflexed. Prementum flat. Pronotum: widest at base; lateral margins in posterior half almost straight and subparallel, in anterior third strongly convex and convergent; anterior angles not produced and moderately rounded; posterior angles blunt and weakly rounded; anterior margin medially weakly convex with distinct, fine marginal line; basal margin with a fine marginal line. Pronotal surface with dense, double punctation; fine, glabrous punctures mixed with large punctures each bearing a long, erect seta; pilosity moderately dense. Anterior and lateral borders setose; basal margin of hypomeron not produced ventrally, not transversely sulcate anterior to base. Scutellum : moderately long, apex sharp, with fine and irregularly dense punctures, posterior third almost smooth, minute setae present in the punctures. Elytra: oblong, widest medially; striae indistinctly impressed, finely densely punctate; intervals flat with fine, moderately dense punctures; odd intervals with punctures long, erect, setae evenly dense; sutural interval with robust and long single seta. Epipleural edge fine, ending at the strongly convex external apical angle of elytra; epipleura densely setose; elytra strongly curved in anterior third; apical border chitinous, without short microtrichomes. Venter: Ventral surface dull with fine, dense punctures; metasternum with dense, long setae; setae partially appressed, partially erect. Metacoxa medially glabrous with moderately dense, fine, long, appressed setae laterally. Abdominal sternites with indistinct transverse row of coarse punctures bearing thick setae between fine, dense punctation; all sternites with fine, long setae; tegument of abdominal sternites (60x magnification) with fine polygonal mesh pattern formed by microtrichomes; penultimate sternite at midline with longitudinally impressed line. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrow, narrower than mesofemur, with irregularly scattered, strong setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.6. Pygidium moderately convex; dull; with fine, dense punctures bearing fine, long setae; pilosity denser along apical margin; without smooth midline. Legs: slender with shiny surface. Femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely densely punctate and setose; anterior edge of metafemur acute, lacking adjacent serrated line, posterior margin weakly convex with a few fine setae medially; ventral posterior margin weakly widened in apical half; posterior margin smooth ventrally and dorsally. Metatibia moderately slender and long; widest at apex; ratio width / length: 1 / 3.6; dorsal margin sharply carinate and smooth with two groups of spines, the basal group at one third, apical one at two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a few single spines in punctures; lateral face longitudinally convex with dense, fine, glabrous punctures; ventral edge serrated with four strong, long, equally spaced spines; medial face finely punctate, apex sharply truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally glabrous and finely sparsely punctate; ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres dorsally without longitudinal impressions, ventrally with strongly serrated ridge adjacent to strong longitudinal carina, laterally without strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere slightly shorter than the following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than the upper tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. Protarsal claws asymmetrical; basal tooth of inner protarsal claw widened and truncate apically. Aedeagus: Fig. 2D–F .

Intraspecific variation. Length: 5.0– 5.9 mm, length of elytra: 3.2–3.4 mm, width: 2.5– 2.8 mm. Density of punctation on dorsal surface variable. ♀: antennal club with three antennomeres and distinctly shorter than the remaining antennomeres combined; eyes equal in size to that of male.

Diagnosis. Anomalophylla liciata is similar to A. bicolor in external shape and genital morphology of male. It differs from A. bicolor by the broader lateral apophysis of phallobase and by the basal lobe of the right paramere, which is much longer than the right paramere (while the basal lobe in A. bicolor is only half as long as the right paramere).

Etymology. From Latin word liciatus meaning with stripes.

Figures

FIGURE 2. (A–C) Anomalophylla bicolor sp. n. (Lectotype: Tatsienlu ­ Kiulung); (D–F) A. liciata sp. n. (holotype); (G–J) A. subfastuosa sp. n. (holotype); (K–M) A. stoetzneri sp. n. (holotype); (N– P) A. hispidulosa sp. n. (holotype); (Q–S) A. majori sp. n. (holotype). (A, D, G, K, N, Q) aedeagus, left side lateral view; (B, E, H, L, O, R) parameres, dorsal view; (C, F, J, M, P, S) aedeagus, right side lateral view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 6. Present known distribution of Anomalophylla liciata, A. moupinea, A. subcarinata, and A. subfastuosa.