Menippus beeneni, new species
Creators: name: Lee, Chi-Feng
name: Bezdĕk, Jan
name: Suenaga, Haruki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Menippus
Menippus beeneni

description: Menippus beeneni, new species
(Figs 10, 20, 27, 34)
Male. Length 7.5 mm. Color: brown; antennae blackish brown except two basal antennomeres; vertex, apex of femur, apex and base of tibiae, tarsi darkened. Sculpture: head, pronotum and elytra with small, extremely dense punctures. Antenna short, reaching mid-point of body, all antennomeres elongate, relative length of antennomeres II-XI about 1.0: 1.3: 1.6: 1.6: 1.5: 1.6: 1.4: 1.4: 1.4: 1.7. Pronotum widest at apical 1/3, gradually narrowed towards base; pronotal disc with pair of circular depressions, with shallow depression medially, transverse depression along hind margin laterally; hind margin slightly medially and laterally concave. Prosternal process reduced to a sharp keel between coxae, parallel-sided from base to apex; procoxal cavities closed, long thin hypomeral lobes reaching apex of posternal process. Elytra elongate, about 1.5X longer than wide, dorsally flat. Apex of last ventrite with a shallow concave excision. Penis extremely wide and curved in lateral view (Fig. 10 a), strongly constricted towards tip, dorso-lateral angles bent downwards; in dorsal view wide and laterally parallel, apex truncated and slightly convex at middle (Fig. 10 b). Apex of endophallic sclerite broad, with teeth along outer apical margin and several teeth scatted on disc (Fig. 10 b).
Female. Length 8.8–9.4 mm. Similar to male. Apex of last ventrite truncate. Sternite VIII well sclerotized (Fig. 20), apex moderately concave at middle, with dense extremely long setae along apical margin, spiculum short. Spermathecal receptaculum (Fig. 27) strongly swollen, gradually narrowed between receptaculum and pump, pump narrow and curved, spermathecal duct slightly projecting into receptaculum. Gonocoxae separated, transverse, irregular margined, laterally tapering, disc with one short setae (Figs. 34).
Diagnosis. This species is identified by the strongly curved penis and the truncate and medially convex apex in dorsal view.
Types (8 specimens). Holotype ♂: CHINA, Shaanxi, Tsinling mts., 1600 m, Foping Nature reserve, 33°51’N, 107°57’E, 6.IV.1999 leg. V. Siniaev & A. Plutenko (TARI). Paratypes: 3♀♀, same data as holotype (TARI, RBNN); 13, same but with “ 20.IV.-11.V.1999 ” (RBNN); 1♀, Shaanxi, Tai Bei Shan, 33°35’N, 107°43’E, 1300- 1500 m, 10.VIII.-4.IX.1998, leg. S. Murzin & V. Siniaev (RBNN); 13, Shaanxi, Qing Ling Shan Mts., 1500 m, Hou Zen Zi vill., 30 km SE of Taibai Shan Mt., 26.VI.1998, leg. O. Šafránek & M. Trýzna (JBBC); 1♀, Shanxi, Shou-man, Daba Shan mts., 1800 m, 32°08’N, 108°37’E, 1.VI. 20000, collector unknown (RBNN).
Distribution. China (Shaanxi, Shanxi).
description: Published as part of Lee, Chi-Feng, Bezdĕk, Jan & Suenaga, Haruki, 2012, Revision of Menippus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Taiwan and Menippus dimidiaticornis species group with a new generic synonymy, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 3427 on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/210575