Menippus hsuehleeae, new species
Creators: name: Lee, Chi-Feng
name: Bezdĕk, Jan
name: Suenaga, Haruki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Menippus
Menippus hsuehleeae

description: Menippus hsuehleeae, new species
(Figs 3, 4, 8, 13, 23, 30, 38, 43)
Male. Length 8.0– 8.5 mm. Color (Figs 3–4): yellowish-brown; antennae blackish brown except two basal antennomeres; vertex, apex of femur, apex and base of tibiae, and tarsi darkened; pronotum with one big black spot at each side. Sculpture: head and pronotum with large, extremely dense punctures, punctures on elytra relatively smaller. Antenna short, reaching mid-point of body, all antennomeres elongate, relative length of antennomeres II–XI about 1.0: 1.3: 1.8: 1.5: 1.4: 1.5: 1.5: 1.5: 1.5: 1.8. Pronotum widest at apical 1/3, gradually narrowed towards base; pronotal disc with a pair of circular depressions, with shallow depression medially, and transverse depression along hind margin laterally; hind margin slightly medially and laterally concave. Prosternal process reduced to a sharp keel between coxae (Fig. 8), parallel-sided from base to apex; procoxal cavities open, gap between apex of hypomeron and posternal process about 0.3X coxal cavity width. Elytra elongate, about 1.6X longer than wide, dorsally flat. Apex of last ventrite with a shallow concave excision. Penis slender and weakly curved in lateral view (Fig. 13 a), in dorsal view narrow and slightly asymmetric, apex widely rounded (Fig. 13 b). Apex of endophallic sclerite widely rounded, with scattered tiny teeth along outer apical margin (Fig. 13 b).
Female. Length 9.6–10.5 mm. Similar to male. Apex of last ventrite weakly concave. Sternite VIII well sclerotized (Fig. 23), apex moderately concave at middle, with scattered long setae along apical margin, spiculum short. Spermathecal receptaculum strongly swollen (Fig. 30), pump and receptaculum well separated by one layer of membrane, pump narrow and curved, spermathecal duct deeply projecting into receptaculum. Gonocoxae (Fig. 38) separated, cylindrical, apex with three long setae.
Diagnosis. This new species is similar to Menippus issikii (Chûjô) with two black spots at sides of the pronotum, but differs with the black spots larger in size and not constricted at basal 1/3 of lateral margin of pronotum (Fig. 3) (black spots smaller and constricted at apical 1/3 of lateral margin of pronotum in M. issikii); the rounded and asymmetric apex of penis (Fig. 13 b) (apex of penis mucronate and symmetric in M. issikii (Fig. 14 b)); and the broadly rounded apex of endophallic sclerite (Fig. 13 b) (endophallic sclerite elongate in M. issikii (Fig. 14 b)).
Types (20 specimens). Holotype ♂: TAIWAN: Taipei, Chinshan, 4.VI.2011, leg. H. Lee (TARI). Paratypes: 233, 1♀, same as holotype (13, 1♀: HSHJ; 13: TARI); 233, 2♀♀, same locality, 29.V.2011, leg. C.-C. Cheng (TARI); 333, 2♀♀, same locality, 30.V.2011, leg. H. Lee (2: RBNN, 2: JBBC, 1: TARI); 2♀♀, Taipei, Kuanyinshan, 18.V.2011, leg. H. Lee (TARI); 13, 1♀, same but with “ 20.V.2011 ” (TARI); 1♀, Taipei, Niukangleng, 5.VI.2011, leg. M.-H. Tsou (TARI); 1♀, Hsinchu, Kuansi, 10.IV.2010, leg. H. Lee (TARI); 1♀, Taoyuan, Lalashan, 4.V.2010, leg. S.-F. Yu (TARI).
Host plant. Ulmaceae: Celtis formosana Hayata, 1911.
Distribution. North Taiwan (Fig. 43).
Etymology. This new species is named after Mrs Hsueh Lee who first collected it.
description: Published as part of Lee, Chi-Feng, Bezdĕk, Jan & Suenaga, Haruki, 2012, Revision of Menippus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Taiwan and Menippus dimidiaticornis species group with a new generic synonymy, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 3427 on pages 9-11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/210575