Anomala immeliorata Zorn &amp; Kobayashi &amp; Wada 2017, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Zorn, Carsten
name: Kobayashi, Hirokazu
name: Wada, Kaoru
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Anomala
Anomala immeliorata

description: <i>Anomala immeliorata</i> spec. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 94F6E08A-609F-45BD-90DC-C2357A94B080 (Figs 2, 11) <b>Type series</b>: <b>Holotype</b>: , C. VIETNAM: Quang Nam dist near Danang 16.IV.-15.V.2010. (NSMT). Paratypes: 1 , near Ngoe Thinh (alt. 2200 m), Kon Tum Prov., C. Vietnam, 1-15-IV-2010, native collector leg. (MFPC); 3 , C-VIETNAM Tua Thien Hue Prov. Bach Ma Natl. Park, surr. Hotel Morin (1350-1400 m), 16,2°N 107,85°E 23-28.V.2014 (at light) / legit L. Bartolozzi, G. Chelazzi, A. Bandinelli, S. Bambi, F. Fabiano (n° Magazz. 2978) (CZPC, MZUF). <b>Description</b>: Body shape elongate ovoid, distinctly convex; body length: 18.0- 19.5 mm, width: 9.0- 9.5 mm. <b>Color</b>. Entire body deep metallic green with reddish as well as faint iridescent reflections which are stronger on elytra, pygidium and abdomen; antennae greenish black, tarsi somewhat bluish. <b>Head</b> with erect yellow setae (0.38-0.5 mm in length) along eyes; interocular distance equals 0.67 times the maximum transverse head width. Clypeus broadly trapezoidal, densely punctate; the punctures round and large (ca. 0.07 mm in diameter), partly coalescent along marginal portion; anterior margin distinctly reflexed; fronto-clypeal suture weakly sinuate. Frons densely punctate, somewhat larger anteriad, sparser and smaller posteriad. Vertex with sparse, small, somewhat transverse punctures. <b>Pronotum</b> 1.7 times as wide as long; sides arcuate, convergent in apical 2/5, almost straight in posterior 3/5; widest at base; anterior and lateral margin with weak marginal line; lateral marginal line extending to hind angles; posterior margin with marginal line between hind angle and scutellum; front angles produced and acute, hind angles obtuse; disc with dense small transverse punctures (ca. 0.05 mm) in the middle, punctures becoming larger laterad; with sparse erect yellow setae (ca. 0.6 mm in length) along lateral margin. <b>Scutellum</b> 1.7 times as wide as long, apex broadly angulate; with sparse transverse punctures. <b>Elytra</b> regularly striate-sulcate; intervals moderately convex; sutural interval elevated in the posterior 2/3 of elytra; surface covered with irregular, transverse, microscopic-seta-bearing punctures; punctures adjacent to each other, confluent towards striae, much sparser and smaller at the ridges of the intervals and the humeral protuberance; epipleura disappearing behind middle of elytron; marginal membrane starting approximately at level of anterior third of metacoxa. <b>Pygidium</b> triangular, widely rounded at apex; tumid; with reticulate striolation which is arranged concentrically around the tumidity; with reddish brown setae (0.63-0.75 mm in length) at lateral and apical portion. <b>Mesoventrite</b> very narrow and somewhat concave between the approximated mesocoxae. <b>Metaventrite</b> reticulately rugulose, with sparse yellow setae (0.13-0.38 mm in length) in lateral portions, sparsely punctate and almost glabrous in the middle. <b>Abdominal ventrites</b> transversely punctate in the middle, transversely striolate at the sides; 2nd to 4th ventrite with a transverse row of semierect brownish setae (0.08- 0.38 mm in length) in the apical half. <b>Legs</b> slender and long; protibia bidentate; terminal tooth prolonged and obtuse at apex in male; protarsal segment 5 with a sharp tooth in the middle; inner protarsal claw and outer mesotarsal claw apically incised, forming two branches; the upper branch of the inner protarsal claw small and slender, the lower branch broad with a distinct tooth at its ventral margin. <b>Diagnosis</b>: <i>Anomala immeliorata</i> is a sister species of <i>A. confrater</i> and can be separated from it only by the shape of the aedeagus: the hook-shaped extension of the ventral plate is more strongly curved backwards, and the parameres are nearly symmetrical, not equipped with a lateral tooth (fig. 11). Both species are similar to <i>A. aulax</i> and <i>A. imperspicabilis</i> spec. nov. but can be separated from these by the following characters: pronotum without yellowish lateral margin and without median longitudinal depression; legs green; elytra evenly striate with very convex intervals; aedeagus distinctly asymmetrical in <i>A. immeliorata</i> and <i>A. confrater</i>. <b>Etymology</b>: The specific epithet is formed by the Latin adjective “immelioratus, -a, -um” and translates as “not improved”. It is an allusion to the unicolored and simple appearance of <i>A. immeliorata</i> compared to the similar <i>A. aulax</i> and <i>A. imperspicabilis</i>.
description: Published as part of <i>Zorn, Carsten, Kobayashi, Hirokazu &amp; Wada, Kaoru, 2017, Notes on the genus Anomala SAMOUELLE, 1819 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) in Vietnam and neighboring regions: eight new species and faunistic records, pp. 325-352 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 67 (2)</i> on pages 327-328, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.67.2.325-352, http://zenodo.org/record/5742448