Maladera shiniushanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Liu, Wan-Gang
name: Bai, Ming
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Maladera
Maladera shiniushanensis

description: Maladera shiniushanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n.
Figures 11 I–L, 93
Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ China, E Fujian, 1. V. Shiniushan, 1600-1700m 25°38’N 118°28’E Jaroslav Turna leg., 2008/ 805 Sericini Asia spec.” (ZFMK). Paratypes: 1 ♂ “ China, E Fujian, 1. V. Shiniushan, 1600-1700m 25°38’N 118°28’E Jaroslav Turna leg., 2008” (ZFMK).
Description. Length: 9.5 mm, length of elytra: 7.6 mm, width: 6.5 mm. Body oval, dark brown, antenna yellow, labroclypeus shiny, remainder of dorsal surface dull, glabrous, except for a few small setae on the head and elytra.
Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, base dull, distinctly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins straight and strongly convergent to moderately rounded anterior angles, lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed; anterior margin very shallowly emarginate medially; surface weakly convex medially, shiny, coarsely and finely punctate, with a few short, erect setae anteriorly; frontoclypeal suture feebly impressed and weakly curved medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and moderately wide, finely punctate, with two short terminal setae. Frons with fine, moderately dense punctures, glabrous except for a few setae beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio diameter/ interocular width: 0.56. Antenna yellow, with 10 antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.
Pronotum widest at base, lateral margins weakly and evenly convex and convergent anteriorly, anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp, anterior margin weakly convex, marginal line widely interrupted medially; surface moderately finely and densely punctate, with minute setae in punctures; setae on anterior and lateral margins lacking. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and moderately dense punctures, each bearing a single minute seta.
Elytra oblong, widest at middle, striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate, odd intervals moderately convex, even intervals nearly flat, with fine, moderately dense punctures often concentrated along striae; epipleural margin robust, ending at the weakly convex external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border chitinous, without short microtrichomes.
Ventral surface dull, thorax and metacoxa with large dense punctures, sparsely setose, metacoxa glabrous except for a few long setae laterally. Abdominal sternites, in addition to generally distributed fine and moderately dense punctures, with a distinct transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a short and robust seta, some punctures with microscopic setae, penultimate sternite apically with a shiny smooth chitinous border, which is a quarter as long as sternite. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.56. Pygidium moderately convex, finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, punctures with minute setae and with a few long setae along apical margin.
Legs moderately narrow and long; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate. Metafemur dull, anterior margin acute, lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior ventral margin medially straight, weakly widened in apical half and not serrate, dorsally not serrated, finely setose. Metatibia moderately wide and long, widest at apex, ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.85, dorsally sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at middle, apical one at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few punctures, each bearing short single spines; lateral face shiny and longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and fine punctures, with minute setae in punctures; ventral margin serrate, with four strong equidistant spines; medial face impunctate, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation shallowly concave. Tarsomeres finely sparsely punctate dorsally, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrated ridge, beside it with smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere slightly shorter than following two tarsomeres combined and a little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.
Aedeagus: Fig. 11 I–K. Habitus: Fig. 11L. Female unknown.
Diagnosis. This new species is very similar to Maladera taoyuanensis Kobayashi, 1991 in shape the of aedeagus Maladera shiniushanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n. differs in having the left paramere longer and strongly curved in basal half.
Etymology. Maladera shiniushanensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n. is named after its type locality, Shiniu shan (adjective in the nominative singular case).
Variation. Length: 8.8–9.5 mm, length of elytra: 7.1–7.6 mm, width: 5.8–6.5 mm.
Distribution. See map (Fig. 93) and Table 1.
description: Published as part of Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-400 in Zootaxa 4922 (1) on pages 61-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4496316