Aethina (Aethina) dubitabilis Kirejtshuk, 1986

Chen, Xiaoxiao, Zhang, Jianhui & Huang, Min, 2024, New species and records of subgenus Aethina from China (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), Zootaxa 5471 (1), pp. 141-147 : 145

Aethina (Aethina) dubitabilis Kirejtshuk, 1986

( Figs. 31–32, 25–26 )

Aethina (Aethina) dubitabilis Kirejtshuk, 1986: 67

Specimens examined. 1♂, Sichuan Province, Wanxian County, Wangerbao Natural Reserve , 1200m a.s.l., 11-VI-1993, Wengui LI, 157, Inst. Zool. Acad. Sin. IOZ(E) 1967923 ; 1♂, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou City, Tianmu Mountain , 25-VI-2014, Xiaoli Lin, NWAFU .

Remarks. Comparing the specimens from China with the type specimen described by Kirejtshuk from Vietnam we found the next differences: punctures on pronotum more spare; scutellum ligulate; ventral surface distinctly punctured.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Zhejiang), Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 17–32. A. (A.) cyaneipennis Grouvelle, 1903, (17) male habitus, dorsal, (18) male habitus, ventral, (23) tegmen, dorsal, (24) median lobe, dorsal; A. (A.) dubitabilis Kireitshuk, 1986, (19) male habitus, dorsal, (20) male habitus, ventral, (25) tegmen, dorsal, (26) median lobe, dorsal; A. (A.) kirejtshuki Jelínek, 1995, (21) male habitus, dorsal, (22) male habitus, ventral, (27) tegmen, dorsal, (29) median lobe, dorsal; A. (A.) lindskogi Jelínek & Kirejtshuk, 1986, (28) tegmen, dorsal, (30) median lobe, dorsal (31) male habitus, dorsal, (32) male habitus, ventral. Scale bars: 1mm (17–22, 31, 32), 0.2mm (23–30).