Pseudotheopea boreri, Lee & Bezděk, 2020

Lee, Chi-Feng & Bezdek, Jan, 2020, Revision of the Theopea genus group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae), part III: Descriptions of two new genera and nine new species, ZooKeys 912, pp. 65-124 : 65

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.912.47719
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scientific name	Pseudotheopea boreri
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pseudotheopea boreri sp. nov. Figs 8A-C View Figure 8 ; 9A, B View Figure 9 ; 10 View Figure 10

Types.

Holotype ♂ (NHMB), INDIA. Meghalaya, 9 km NW of Jowai, 25°30'N 92°10'E, 1400m, 12.V.1999, leg. Dembický and Pacholátko. Paratypes. 1♂, 2♀♀ (NHMB), same as holotype; INDIA. Assam: 1♀ (NMPC), 5 km N of Umrongso, 700 m, 25°27'N 92°43'E, 17.-25.V.1999, leg. J. Rolčík; 1♀ (NHMB), same locality, 21.V.1999, leg. Dembický and Pacholátko”; Meghalaya: 2♀♀ (JBCB), Nokrek N.P., 3km S Daribokgiri, 1400 m, 25°27'N 90°19'E, 26.IV.1999, leg. Rolčík; 1♀ (JBCB), 8 km N of Shillong, 1200 m, 25°38'N 91°54'E, 7.-9.V.2004, leg. R. Businský; 1♂, 1♀ (NHMB), same but with "leg. L. Dembický”.

Description.

Length 5.6-6.6 mm, width 2.0-2.6 mm. Body color (Fig. 8A-C View Figure 8 ) golden green, but legs yellowish brown but apices of tibiae and tarsi darker; mouth parts and antennae dark brown. Frontoclypeus (Fig. 9A, B View Figure 9 ) transverse and deeply excavated between eyes in males, concavity as wide as interspace between eyes, margined with long hair-like setae except along basal margin; with dense, long hair-like setae at center. Antennae filiform in males, (Fig. 10A View Figure 10 ), relatively broader than females, antennomeres V and VI slightly curved, length ratios of antennomeres I-XI 1.0: 0.3: 0.9: 1.2: 1.1: 1.1: 1.1: 1.0: 1.0: 0.9: 1.1, length to width ratios of antennomeres I-XI 3.2: 1.3: 3.2: 4.1: 4.4: 4.5: 4.9: 5.1: 5.2: 5.0: 5.8; filiform in females (Fig. 10B View Figure 10 ), length ratios of antennomeres I-XI 1.0: 0.3: 0.7: 0.9: 0.9: 0.8: 0.8: 0.8: 0.8: 0.8: 0.9, length to width ratios of antennomeres I-XI 3.8: 2.1: 3.7: 4.8: 4.9: 4.4: 4.7: 5.1: 5.3: 4.9: 6.6. Elytra elongate, parallel-sided, 1.8-2.0 × longer than wide; disc with dense, coarse punctures, arranged into longitudinal rows, with one indistinct longitudinal ridge between two longitudinal rows of punctures; with distinct convex area behind scutellum in males. Tarsomeres I of front legs swollen in males; subparallel in females. Aedeagus (Fig. 10C-E View Figure 10 ) extremely slender, 7.7 × longer than wide; apex with shallow notch, both apices equal in length; tectum elongate from apical 1/10 to basal 2/5; moderately curved in lateral view, angular at apical 1/4, straight from apex to apical 1/4; triangular sclerites elongate; internal sac with elongate, endophallic sclerite complex, 0.4 × as long as aedeagus, composed of two sclerites, apical piece (0.6 ×) much shorter than basal piece. Gonocoxae (Fig. 10G View Figure 10 ) elongate, both gonocoxae fused from basal 1/4 to apical 1/5; apices convergent and narrowly rounded, each gonocoxa with eight setae along lateral margin from apex to apical 1/6, some setae extremely short; lateral processes reduced. Ventrite VIII (Fig. 10F View Figure 10 ) elongate and well sclerotized; disc with several long setae at sides and near apical margin, and with dense, short setae along apical margin; spiculum extremely slender. Receptacle of spermatheca (Fig. 10H View Figure 10 ) tightly joined with pump, pump slender and strongly curved; proximal spermathecal duct deeply inserted into receptacle, narrow and short.

Diagnosis.

Pseudotheopea boreri sp. nov. (Fig. 8A-C View Figure 8 ), P. clypealis (Medvedev) (Fig. 8D-F View Figure 8 ), P. hsingtzungi sp. nov. (Fig. 15A-C View Figure 15 ), and P. smaragdina (Gressitt and Kimoto) (Fig. 15D-F View Figure 15 ), are characterized by their golden green coloration. They can be identified based on their distribution: P. boreri sp. nov. from India, P. clypealis from Vietnam, P. hsingtzungi sp. nov. from Laos, and P. smaragdina from China. Pseudotheopea boreri sp. nov. (Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ) is similar to P. hsingtzungi sp. nov. (Fig. 15A View Figure 15 ) and P. smaragdina (Fig. 15D View Figure 15 ) by sharing the indistinct longitudinal ridges on the elytra (convex and distinct longitudinal ridges on the elytra in P. clypealis (Fig. 8D View Figure 8 )), but differs by the presence of convex area surrounding scutellum and with reduced longitudinal ridges on the elytra in males (Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ) (without convex area surrounding scutellum on the elytra in those of others (Figs 8D View Figure 8 , 15A, D View Figure 15 )) and concavity wide between eyes and without erect processes in males (Fig. 9A, B View Figure 9 ) (concavity wide between eyes with one erect process in those of P. smaragdina (Fig. 16C, D View Figure 16 ); concavity narrowed between eyes and without erect processes in those of P. hsingtzungi sp. nov. (Fig. 16A, B View Figure 16 )). In males, the internal aedeagal sac of P. boreri sp. nov. lacks additional sclerites except the median elongate sclerite (Fig. 10C, D View Figure 10 ). This structure is shared with males of P. gressitti sp. nov. (Fig. 14C, D View Figure 14 ), and P. costata (Allard), Pseudotheopea boreri sp. nov. males differ from both species in possessing a dorso-ventrally flattened aedeagus with a sclerotized ventral surface (Fig. 7C-E View Figure 7 ) (wide aedeagus with membranous ventral surface in P. gressitti sp. nov. (Fig. 14C-E View Figure 14 )).