Pseudognaptorina banbarica X.-M. Li 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Xiu-Min
name: Zhang, Bao-Yue
name: Li, Ji-Gang
name: Pan, Zhao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Pseudognaptorina
Pseudognaptorina banbarica

description: Pseudognaptorina banbarica X.-M. Li sp. nov.
Type materials.
Holotype: China • ♂ (MHBU HBU (E) 339867): Marxog Township, Banbar County, Xizang / 31°01.410'N, 94°37.152'E / Alt. 4400 m / 2019-VII-31 / Guo-Dong Ren, Ya-Lin Li & Xing-Long Bai leg. Paratypes: China • 3 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀ (MHBU HBU (E) 339868 –339877): same data as holotype.
Description.
Male (Figs 2, 3 A – C). Body length 10.5–11.0 mm, width 4.9–5.0 mm; shiny, black or brownish; antennae, palpi, and tarsi brown.
Head (Fig. 2 A, B). Anterior margin of clypeus slightly sinuate. Head widest at eye level. Lateral margin of head with pair of projections between antennal base and oculus, brownish red. Genal margin arcuately converging before eyes. Eyes barely protruding beyond contour of head. Vertex flat or slightly convex, with uniform punctures. Antennae (Fig. 2 D) slender and long, reaching beyond pronotal base when posteriorly extended, antennomeres III very long, 3.2 times as long as antennomeres II, antennomeres VIII – X oval, XI spindle-shaped. Length (width) ratio of antennomeres II – XI as follows: 10.9 (10.0): 27.6 (10.0): 13.9 (10.0): 14.3 (10.0): 15.0 (10.0): 15.7 (10.0): 12.6 (12.7): 11.3 (12.6): 11.7 (14.3): 18.0 (14.4).
Prothorax. Pronotum (Fig. 2 C) transverse, 1.28 times as wide as long, widest in middle, 1.78 times as wide as head. Ratio of width at anterior margin to its maximum width and posterior margin 0.60: 1.00: 0.97. Lateral margins of pronotum arcuately narrowing to anterior margin, bordered along entire length; posterior margin straight; anterior margin slightly emarginate; anterior angles widely obtuse-angled, posterior angles almost rectangular. Surface of pronotum slightly convex between lateral margins, covered with fine dense punctation. Hypomera covered shallow longitudinal wrinkles and granules. Prosternum before procoxae gently sloping. Prosternal process gently sloping behind procoxae, forming obtuse projection.
Pterothorax. Elytra oblong-oval and convex, 1.37–1.39 times as long as wide, 1.38–1.39 times as wide as pronotum, widest in apical third. Dorsal surface of elytra passing into outer (deflexed) surface without traces of humeral carina. Outer margin of epipleura visible in dorsal view at basal third and apex. Surface of elytra with dense, rather smooth punctation and wrinkles almost vanishing on apical declivity.
Legs (Fig. 2 E – J). Femora and tibiae moderately thickened. Ratio of length (width) of pro-, meso-, and metatibiae: 43.8 (6.6): 43.2 (7.1): 69.6 (8.0). Protibiae straight with shorter spurs, inner surface of protibiae slightly widened at basal third; mesotibiae slightly curved; metatibiae curved, narrow. Ventral surface of protarsomeres I – III with hairy brush; ventral surface of mesotarsomeres I – II with hairy brush. Ratio of length (width) of metatarsomeres I – IV: 24.0 (9.8): 18.7 (8.8): 15.6 (8.3): 30.8 (8.3).
Abdomen. Abdominal ventrites rather sparsely covered with minute, pale, recumbent setae.
Aedeagus. (Fig. 2 K – O) Length of aedeagus 2.31 mm, width 0.42 mm; length of parameres 0.87 mm, width 0.29 mm. Slightly curved to ventral side apically in lateral view. Parameres strongly elongate, widest at base, regularly narrowing towards apex; outer margins slightly curved to ventral side apically in lateral view. Spiculum gastrale as in Fig. 2 K. Posterior margin of abdominal sternite VIII sinuate (Fig. 2 O).
Female (Figs 3 A, B, 4 D – F). Body larger and wider than male, length 12.6–14.4 mm, width 6.9–7.4 mm. Antennae shorter than male, not posteriorly reaching base of pronotum when posteriorly extended. Pronotum 1.52 times as wide as long, widest in middle, lateral margins subparallel from base to middle and arcuately narrowing toward anterior angles, sides of pronotum slightly convex, 1.79 times as wide as head, with very dense punctation. Elytra oval, more convex than male, 1.34 times as long as wide. Protibial spurs rounded at apex. Distal gonocoxite (Fig. 3 A) rounded apically, densely covered with setae; spiculum ventrale as in Fig. 3 B.
Diagnosis.
This new species is morphologically similar to P. oblonga, but can be distinguished from it by the following male character states: ventral surface of mesotarsomeres I – II with hair brushes, mesotarsomere III with small hairy tuft (ventral surface of mesotarsomeres I – III with hairy brush in P. oblonga); surface of elytra with dense, rather smooth punctation and regular wrinkle (surface of elytra with fine punctures and irregular wrinkles in P. oblonga); parameres strongly elongate, 3.0 times as long as wide (parameres elongate, 2.75 times as long as wide in P. oblonga).
Etymology.
This species is named for Banbar County, where the type locality is located.
Distribution.
Banbar County, Xizang, China.
description: Published as part of Li, Xiu-Min, Zhang, Bao-Yue, Li, Ji-Gang & Pan, Zhao, 2025, Systematic review of the genus Pseudognaptorina Kaszab, 1977 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Blaptinae, Blaptini) from the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, with description of six new species, pp. 19-46 in ZooKeys 1234 on pages 19-46, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1234.137739