Anomalophylla majori Ahrens 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Anomalophylla
Anomalophylla majori

description: Anomalophylla majori sp. n.   
(Fig. 2Q–S, 7)  
 Type material. Holotype: ♂ ” China, Kansu mer. Xiahe (Labrang), 3300–3700 m, 1– 15.vi.1998, V. Major leg.” (MMBC via TICB). Paratypes: 5 ♂♂ same data as holotype (TICB, CA).   
 Holotype description. Length: 5.6 mm, length of elytra: 3.4 mm, width: 2.9 mm. Body oblong, black; elytra laterally indistinctly defined dark brown; dorsal surface dull and with long, dense, erect setae; pilosity black, setae on elytra and some setae on pronotum white at base. Head: Labroclypeus transverse, widest at base with lateral margins strongly convex and slightly convergent anteriorly, anterior angles moderately rounded, lateral border and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle, anterior and lateral margin strongly reflexed and anteriorly moderately sinuate medially; surface almost flat and moderately shiny, coarsely and densely punctate with numerous long, erect setae. Frontoclypeal suture distinct, weakly curved and slightly elevated; smooth area anterior to eye as wide as long. Ocular canthus moderately long and slender, finely and densely punctate, densely setose. Frons with coarse, dense punctures; punctures bearing a long, erect seta; basal punctation less dense, irregular. Eyes small, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.42. Antenna black with ten antennomeres; base brown; club with five equal in length antennomeres; club 2.5 times as long as the remaining antennomeres combined, reflexed. Prementum almost flat. Pronotum: widest at base; lateral margins in posterior half almost straight and subparallel, in anterior half strongly convex and convergent; anterior angles weakly produced and moderately rounded, posterior angles blunt and moderately rounded; anterior margin medially weakly convex with distinct, fine marginal line; basal margin with a fine marginal line. Pronotal surface with dense, double punctation; fine glabrous punctures mixed with large punctures, large punctures bearing a long, erect seta; seta slightly directed anteriorly and weakly curved posteriorly. Pronotal anterior and lateral borders setose; basal margin of hypomeron not produced ventrally, not transversely sulcate anterior to base. Scutellum: moderately long; apex weakly rounded with fine, dense punctures; posteriorly partially smooth; minute setae present in the punctures. Elytra: oblong, widest medially; striae indistinctly impressed and finely densely punctate. Intervals flat with fine, moderately dense punctures; punctures with long, erect setae on all intervals; sutural interval with robust and long seta. Epipleural edge fine, ending at the strongly convex external apical angle of elytra; epipleura densely setose, strongly curved in anterior third of elytra; apical border chitinous, without short microtrichomes. Venter: Ventral surface dull with fine, dense punctures. Metasternum with densely, long setae; setae partially appressed, partially erect. Metacoxa with fine, long appressed setae; glabrous medially. Abdominal sternites with an indistinct transverse row of coarse punctures bearing thick setae between fine, dense punctation; all sternites with fine, long setae; tegument of abdominal sternites (60x magnification) with fine polygonal mesh pattern formed by microtrichomes; ultimate three abdominal sternites at midline with longitudinally impressed line. Mesosternum between mesocoxae narrow, narrower than mesofemur, with irregularly scattered, strong setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum / metacoxa: 1 / 1.56. Pygidium strongly convex, posteriorly shiny; pygidial punctures fine, dense, bearing fine, long setae, without smooth midline. Legs: slender with shiny surface. Femora with two longitudinal rows of setae; finely densely punctate and setose. Anterior edge of metafemur acute, lacking adjacent serrated line; posterior margin weakly convex with a few fine setae medially; ventral posterior margin weakly widened in apical half; posterior margin smooth ventrally and dorsally. Metatibia moderately slender, long, widest at apex; ratio width / length: 1 / 3.5; dorsal margin sharply carinate and smooth with two groups of spines, the basal group at one third, apical one at two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a few single spines in punctures; lateral face longitudinally convex with dense, fine punctures; ventral edge serrated with four strong, long, equally spaced spines; medial face finely punctate; apex sharply truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally glabrous and finely punctate, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres dorsally without longitudinal impressions, ventrally with strongly serrated ridge, laterally without strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere slightly shorter than the following two tarsomeres combined and one third of its length longer than the upper tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. Protarsal claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner protarsal claw evenly pointed. Aedeagus: Fig. 2Q–S.   
 Intraspecific variation. Length: 5.3–5.6 mm, width: 2.9–3.0 mm. Some specimens have the elytra lighter reddish brown. The density of punctation on dorsal surface and the shape of lateral border of pronotum are variable. ♀: unknown.   
 Diagnosis. Anomalophylla majori is similar to A. mandhatensis and A. hispidulosa in external shape and genital morphology of male. It differs from both by the longer basal lobe of right paramere (lobe in A. mandhatensis and A. hispidulosa less than half as long than the paramere) basally bearing a small tubercle.   
 Etymology. This new species is named after the collector of the type series, V. Major.
description: Published as part of Ahrens, Dirk, 2005, Taxonomic revision of the genus Anomalophylla Reitter, 1887 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 1076 (1) on pages 33-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1076.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5050853