Cosmiomorpha (Cosmiomorpha) cheni Qiu
Creators: name: Qiu, Jian-Yue
name: Xu, Hao
name: Hu, Chun-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Cosmiomorpha
Cosmiomorpha cheni

description: Cosmiomorpha (Cosmiomorpha) cheni Qiu & Xu, new species
(Figs. 7, 33–34, 47, 60, 75, 149–150, 157, 164, 171)
Diagnosis. This species is similar to C. decliva, but the subrectangular clypeus serves to differentiate it (Figs. 33– 34), and scales on the dorsal surface are long and evident (Fig. 75).
Holotype. (male). TL: 22.0 mm, TW: 11.0 mm, CW/CL: 1.23. Head: Black, flat, vertex with a slightly raised longitudinal ridge; with two dark brown, poorly-defined areas located in the basal portion of clypeus; surface densely microsculptured; punctures small, round, or elliptical; few punctures with sparse, radially distributed, long scales. Clypeus subrectangular, anterior margin slightly raised. Gula smooth (Fig. 34). Antenna dark brown. Pronotum: Orange red with a black area on disc and two small, black elliptical maculae near the lateral margins respectively; dorsal surface with numerous setiferous punctures; puctures sparser, larger, deeper on disc; scales long, linear, yellow (Fig. 75); margins smooth, black. Scutellum: Black, with sparse setiferous punctures; scales long, yellow. Elytra: Orange red with humeral umbone, basal and anteromesal portion, sutural costa black; with numerous setiferous punctures, punctures denser and scales longer on postdiscal portion. Sternum: Clad with linear, yellow scales, long and dense on mesosternum and both sides of metasternum. Mesosternal process glabrous, thin, suddenly narrowed in the middle; apex rounded (Fig. 7). Pygidium: Orange red, rugose, with sparse, long, yellow scales. Abdomen: Color gradually from black to orange red; the sternites 2–6 with numerous, linear scales except for medial area; medial area with sparse, setiferous punctures, scales inapparent; last sternite almost glabrous, with a row of yellow setae along posterior margin. Legs: Coxae and trochanters black. Coxae densely clad with linear scales. Trochanters glabrous. Ventral surface of femora orange red with peripheral margins black; covered with short, sinuous striolae and sparse, linear yellow scales. Tibiae orange red with apical portion black; with numerous punctures and sparse, short, yellow scales. Protibia slim, a dark brown spot on the apical portion (Fig. 47); a row of mastoid teeth on ventral surface; deflexed tooth short and blunt (Fig. 60); three teeth along the outer margin of which proximal tooth reduced, the distance between the middle and proximal teeth about 1.3 times the distance between distal and middle teeth; spur very small. Mesotibia and metatibia with a blunt spine in the middle of outer margin; a row of sparse, brush-like, yellow setae along inner margin. Tarsi orange red; apical portion of each tarsomere dark brown (Fig. 149). Protarsus thin; basitarsus slightly clavate. Pretarsi black. Parameres: Elongate, outer margins nearly parallel, proximal part slightly expanded in apical view; apex pointed with a small tuft of straight, golden setae.
Female. Unknown.
Type material. Holotype: CHINA: Yunnan: ♂ (SWUC, ex QCCC, No.542), 21.VII.2002, Gulinqing National Nature Reserve, Maguan County, Wenshan Prefecture, Zhe Li leg.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of the Chinese entomologist Kan-Fan Chen (1904–1981). Chen was a pioneer in the study of Chinese Cicadidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) from 1933–1981. He worked at the University of Nanking (1933–1957) and at Zhejiang Agricultural University (1957–1975), and collected many of the Cetoniines specimens preserved at NJAU.
Distribution. China: Yunnan.
description: Published as part of Qiu, Jian-Yue, Xu, Hao & Hu, Chun-Lin, 2013, Revision of the subgenus Cosmiomorpha (Cosmiomorpha) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), pp. 401-434 in Zootaxa 3745 (4) on pages 424-426, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247366