Tricosa cattienensis Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020 Fig. 77A, B, I

Tricosa cattienensis Cognato, Smith & Beaver, 2020 (in Cognato et al. 2020a): 548.

Type material.

Holotype (MSUC), paratypes (IZAS, 1; MSUC, 1; RABC, 3; UFFE, 1).

Diagnosis.

2.7-3.1 mm long (mean = 2.98 mm; n = 5); 2.5-2.7 × as long as wide. This species is distinguished by the declivital slope gentle; declivital posterolateral margins rounded; elytral disc and declivity shiny; elytral interstriae granulate, not tuberculate; declivital striae weakly impressed; and pronotum anterior margin with a clear row of six moderate serrations.

It can be further distinguished from T. indochinensis by the smaller size and stouter form.

Similar species.

Tricosa indochinensis .

Distribution.

China (Hong Kong), Japan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Host plants.

Known only from Pterocarpus ( Fabaceae), Machilus ( Lauraceae), and a cut liana (Cognato et al. 2020a).