Miridiba kuatunensis Gao & Fang, 2018

Gao, Chuan-bu & Coca-Abia, María Milagro, 2021, Revision of the genus Miridiba Reitter, 1902 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae): genital morphotypes and new taxonomic data, European Journal of Taxonomy 749, pp. 1-94 : 34

Miridiba kuatunensis Gao & Fang, 2018

Miridiba kuatunensis Gao & Fang in Gao et al., 2018: 4 , figs 2, 6 ( type loc.: Guadun, Fujian, China).

Miridiba kuatunensis – Gao et al. 2019: 461 (species list; in key).

Diagnosis

See Gao et al. (2018).

Remarks

Gao et al. (2018) described Miridiba kuatunensis based on a male holotype and fifteen paratypes ( eight males and seven females) conserved in IZCAS. The 9-segmented antenna, pronotal surface densely punctate and parameres with two dorsal and two ventral branches ( Gao et al. 2018: fig.2)allow us to include M.kuatunensis in morphotype I “ Trichophora ”. Miridiba kuatunensis is a species related to M. brancuccii , the parameres shape illustrated by Sabatinelli (1983: figs 1–2) shows similarities with those of M. kuatunensis ( Gao et al. 2018: fig. 2h–i). However, these species differ in the dorsal surface of the body, glabrous in M. brancuccii ( Sabatinelli 1983) and pubescent in M. kuatunensis . On the other hand, M. kuatunensis and M. pilosella ( Moser, 1908) are quite similar, both species can be distinguished by the ratio between dorsal and ventral branches of the parameres and the curving of dorsal branches tips ( Gao et al. 2018).

Distribution

China ( Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Zhejiang).