Neoserica baoshana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ahrens, Dirk
name: Liu, Wangang
name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Bai, Ming
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Neoserica
Neoserica baoshana

description: Neoserica (s.l.) baoshana Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu sp. nov.
(Figures 3I–L, 11)
Type material examined
Holotype. ♂ ‘ China, W. Yunnan, env. Baoshan, 2500 m, 2.–3.viii.2002, leg. S. Murzin, I. Shokhin’ (CP).
Description
Length. 7.6 mm, length of elytra: 5.6 mm, width: 4.6 mm. Body oblong, dark yellowish brown, antenna yellow, dorsal surface dull and nearly glabrous.
Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and moderately convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin distinctly sinuate medially; surface flat and shiny, finely and densely, irregularly punctate, with numerous long erect setae in coarser punctures; frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and medially weakly angled; smooth area in front of eye approximately 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and slender, very finely and sparsely punctate, with a fine terminal seta. Frons dull, with fine and sparse punctures, with a few long setae beside eyes and behind frontoclypeal suture. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.59. Antenna with 10 antennomeres; club with four antennomeres, nearly 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum convexly elevated anteriorly.
Pronotum moderately wide, widest at posterior third, lateral margins evenly curved and weakly narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp, posterior angles blunt and slightly rounded at tip, anterior margin convexly produced medially, broad marginal line widely missing, basal margin without marginal line; surface with moderately dense and fine punctures, with minute setae only; anterior and lateral borders sparsely setose; hypomeron distinctly carinate at base. Scutellum narrow and long, sharp at apex, with fine and moderately dense punctures and minute setae.
Elytra oblong, widest in posterior third, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, intervals weakly convex and not densely punctate, intervals with punctures concentrated along striae, odd intervals with some single, fine setae; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border membranous, with short microtrichomes.
Ventral surface dull, with large and dense punctures, sparsely and shortly setose, setae partly adpressed; metacoxa glabrous, with fine setae laterally, apical margin convex and external apical angle rounded; each abdominal sternite with a distinct transversal row of coarse punctures each bearing a short seta between fine and moderately dense punctation. Mesosternum between mesocoxae nearly half as wide as mesofemur, with irregularly scattered, fine setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/1.6. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and moderately densely punctate, without smooth midline, with sparse long setae on apical half.
Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate; metafemur ventrally dull, anterior margin sharply carinate, without a submarginal serrated line, posterior margin moderately convex, with a few strong setae medially, only weakly widened externally in apical half and not serrated ventrally in distal half, finely serrated dorsally, with dense, short setae. Metatibia slender and long, widest at apex, ratio width/length: 1/3.8, dorsal margin moderately carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group of spines shortly before half of metatibial length, apical one at about three quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single fine spines; external face longitudinally convex, with fine, sparse punctures; ventral margin finely serrated, with four fine, equidistant spines; medial face impunctate, apex concavely truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally finely punctate, with a few long setae, with sparse, short setae ventrally; metatarsomeres impunctate and glabrous dorsally, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and glabrous, and with a fine longitudinal carina immediately beside it; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and distinctly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate, protarsal claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner protarsal claw bluntly truncate apically.
Aedeagus. Figure 8I–K. Female unknown.
Diagnosis
The aedeagus of the new species is very similar to N. kereni, it differs from N. kereni by the strongly z-shaped and double-bent, ventral process of phallobase which in N. kereni is less strongly curved.
Etymology
The new species is named after its type locality, Baoshan (Latin adjective in the nominative singular).
description: Published as part of Ahrens, Dirk, Liu, Wangang, Fabrizi, Silvia, Bai, Ming & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2014, A revision of the species of the Neoserica (sensu lato) vulpes group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini), pp. 1073-1130 in Journal of Natural History 49 (17) on pages 1099-1101, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.974707, http://zenodo.org/record/4005857