Maladera cariniceps
Creators: name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Liu, Wan-Gang
name: Bai, Ming
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Maladera
Maladera cariniceps

description: Maladera cariniceps (Moser, 1915)
Figures 8 A–D, 88
Autoserica cariniceps Moser, 1915: 341; Niijima & Kinoshita 1923: 29, 1927: 7.
Aserica cariniceps: Murayama 1938: 13; Serica cariniceps: Murayama 1954: 41.
Maladera cariniceps: Nomura 1967: 52, 1973: 133; Stebnicka 1980: 255; Kim & Lee 1997: 124; Kim & Kim 2003: 89; Ahrens 2006b: 236, 2007b: 21.
Type material examined. Lectotype (cariniceps, des. by Ahrens 2006b): ♂ “ Seoul Korea / Autoserica cariniceps Type ♂ Mos.” (ZMHB). Paralectotypes (cariniceps): 1 ♀ “ Seoul Korea / Autoserica cariniceps Type ♀ Mos.” (ZMHB), 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ “ Seoul Korea ” (ZMHB).
Additional material examined. China: 2 ex. “ Chine 21.IV.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 4.V.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 18.V.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 1 ex. “ Chine 26.V.46 Kuatun, Fukien leg. Tschung-Sen” (MHNG), 6 ex. “ China, Beijing Shi, 2006 Beijing W env. 16.IV.–30.VII., pitfall traps Jaroslav Turna leg.” (ZFMK), 13 ex. “ China: S-Hubei Mupushan Tangshan vi.2004 leg. Wen ” (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ China—Shaanxi Lueang env. 15 km NW 26.5.–31.5. lgt. E. Kučera “ (CP), 3 ♂♂ “ China: Zhejiang Prov. Qingliangfeng Mt. Shunxiwu Zhiyuan Road 30°03‘N, 118°57‘E / alt. 380–550m 18-V-2012 Chen, Ma & Zhao leg.“ (SNUC), 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ “Fokien/ Yun-ling-shan“ (ZMHB), 1 ♂ “ China, N Henan, 5.VII. Jiuligou, 550m, 35°12‘N, 112°26‘E Jaroslav Turna leg., 2007“ (ZFMK), 2 ♂♂ “ China: Inner Mongolia Mt. Daguangdingzishan (2061m) Chifeng 2.12. vii.2009 local coll. Ankauf via Li Jingke 2010“ (ZFMK). South Korea: 1 ex. “ 22.06.2010 Hongik Univ. Seoul (S̹dkorea) leg. T. Kölkebeck “ (ZFMK).
Redescription. Length: 8.8 mm, length of elytra: 7.0 mm, width: 5.5 mm. Body oval, blackish brown, dull, antenna yellow, labroclypeus moderately shiny, glabrous except for a few short setae on head and lateral margins of pronotum and elytra.
Labroclypeus trapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins straight and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing an indistinct angle; margins weakly reflexed; anterior margin moderately emarginate medially; surface weakly convex medially, shiny, finely and densely punctate, glabrous; frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and wide (1/4 of ocular diameter), finely scarcely punctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons dull, with fine, dense punctures, with setae beside eyes and along a transversal line on the posterior part. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/ interocular width: 0.6. Antenna with ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum elevated and flattened anteriorly.
Pronotum trapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins weakly evenly convex and narrowed towards strongly produced and sharp anterior angles; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin nearly straight, with complete and fine marginal line; basal margin without marginal line; surface finely and densely punctate, punctures with microscopic setae only; anterior and lateral margins densely setose; hypomeron carinate but not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense punctures.
Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae weakly impressed, finely and sparsely punctate, intervals weakly convex, with fine, sparse and evenly distributed punctures; glabrous, punctures with minute setae only; epipleural margin robust, ending at widely rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura sparsely setose; apical border membraneous, with a rim of short microtrichomes.
Ventral surface dull, metasternum and metacoxa with large and dense punctures, sparsely setose; metacoxa glabrous except for numerous long setae laterally; abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, some punctures with very short or minute setae, each sternite with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short seta, penultimate sternite apically with a wide shiny smooth chitinous border of half sternite length. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.34. Pygidium strongly convex, dull, finely and moderately densely punctate, glabrous except a few longer and shorter setae apically.
Legs moderately wide; femora finely and moderately densely punctate, with two longitudinal rows of setae. Metafemur wide, moderately shiny, anterior margin acute, with a fine adjacent and continuously serrated line, surface very sparsely and superficially punctate, anterior row of setae complete; posterior ventral margin moderately widened in apical half and not serrate apically, posterior margin dorsally not serrated, glabrous. Metatibia moderately wide and short, widest at middle, ratio width/length: 1/3.1, dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length, beside dorsal margin basally with a few single fine setae; lateral face weakly longitudinally convex, finely sparsely punctate, along middle impunctate; ventral margin finely serrate, with three strong spines of which the distal one is more distant; medial face impunctate, apex shallowly concave interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres impunctate dorsally, with sparse, short setae ventrally; metatarsomeres glabrous ventrally and with a strongly serrated longitudinal ridge as well as a strong, smooth carina beside it, first metatarsomere distinctly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.
Aedeagus: Fig. 8 A–C. Habitus: Fig. 8D
Distribution. See map (Fig. 88) and Table 1.
description: Published as part of Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-400 in Zootaxa 4922 (1) on pages 42-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4496316