Cheleion jendeki Kral & Hajek , 2015

Kakizoe, Showtaro, Maruyama, Munetoshi & Masumoto, Kimio, 2019, Cheleionwatanabei sp. n., a new species of Stereomerini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae), and description of the male of C. jendeki, ZooKeys 824, pp. 45-52 : 45

Cheleion jendeki Kral & Hajek, 2015 Figs 5-7, 8, 10

Cheleion jendeki Král & Hájek, 2015: 88 (original description based on a female).

Material examined.

PENINSULAR MALAYSIA, Pahang, near the gate of Taman Negeri Endau Rompin, alt. 30 m, 8-23. III. 2015, S. Kakizoe, K. Hoshino, S. Kakinuma & H. Osaki leg., by FIT, 1 ex. male.

Additional description based on male.

Legs (Figs 5, 6). Protarsi pentamerous, amber colored, long, sparsely macrosetose medially, inserted well before protibial apex. Aedeagus (Fig. 7). Symmetrical. Phallobase elongate, cylindrical. Parameres short, almost a quarter length of basal piece. Phallus a little longer than parameres, rounded apically. Struts long, almost two-thirds length of tegmen.

Sexual dimorphism.

No sexual dimorphism detected.

Measurements.

Body length 1.80 mm; maximum width of head 0.67 mm; median dorsal length of pronotum 0.61 mm, maximum width 0.94 mm; sutural length of elytra 0.92 mm, maximum length 0.96 mm, maximum width 0.92 mm.

Remarks.

No males were known for the genus Cheleion so far, therefore a description of the male of C. jendeki is provided here. Furthermore, Král and Hájek (2015) reported that the tarsal formula for C. jendeki was 4-4-4, but it is actually 5-4-4. Therefore, the tarsal formula of C. malayanum given by Vårdal and Forshage (2010) is probably also inaccurate.