Trioserica daweishana Ahrens, Liu & Fabrizi 2021, new species
Creators: name: Ahrens, Dirk
name: Liu, Wangang
name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Bai, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Trioserica
Trioserica daweishana

description: Trioserica daweishana Ahrens, Liu & Fabrizi, new species   
Figure 2I–L  
 Type material examined. Holotype, ♂: “ Mt. Daweishan, Pingbian, Yunnan, 1956.VI.20., light trap, leg. Huang Keren etc. / LW-560 / Lasioserica sp 86” (IZAS).   
 Description of the holotype, male. Length: 8.5 mm, length of elytra: 6.2 mm, width: 4.9 mm. Body oblong, yellowish brown, dorsal surface with small or larger dark spots, frons dark brown with greenish shine, antenna yellow, dorsal surface dull and glabrous except a few short white setae on elytra.   
Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal and wide, widest at base, lateral margins convex and convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles; margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin narrowly emarginate medially; lateral margin and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle; surface nearly flat, shiny, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures less than their diameter, with a few short, erect setae. Frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and medially curved; smooth area in front of eye short and approximately twice as wide as long. Ocular canthus short and triangular, laterally sparsely punctate, with a single, short terminal seta. Frons dull, with fine and evenly dense punctures, with a few short setae beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/ interocular width: 0.6. Antenna yellow, composed of 10 antennomeres; club with four lamellae, little longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum convexly elevated anteriorly.  
Pronotum moderately wide, widest at base, lateral margins weakly but evenly convex and weakly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin convexly produced medially, with a distinct and complete marginal line; basal margin without marginal line; surface with even, dense and fine punctures, posterior midline narrowly impunctate, punctures with microscopic setae; lateral margins sparsely setose. Hypomeron distinctly carinate. Scutellum narrow and short, with fine and dense punctures, medially broadly smooth, punctures with microscopic setae.  
Elytra oblong, widest shortly behind middle; striae distinctly impressed, finely and densely punctate; intervals densely finely punctate, flat, odd intervals with a few fine and short setae, otherwise with minute setae in punctures; epipleural margin robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura sparsely setose; apical border narrowly membraneous, with a very fine rim of short microtrichomes.  
Ventral surface dull, with large and dense punctures, sparsely and shortly setose, setae partly adpressed. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with irregularly scattered robust and long setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/ 1.71. Metacoxa glabrous, laterally with numerous robust setae. Each abdominal sternite with indistinct transversal row of coarse punctures bearing each a robust seta between fine and dense punctation. Pygidium weakly convex, finely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, along apical margin with a few short setae.  
Legs narrow and moderately long, with shiny surface; femur with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and moderately densely punctate. Metafemur ventrally dull, sharply carinate anteriorly, without a submarginal serrated line; posterior margin straight, ventral posterior margin in distal half only weakly widened and smooth; dorsal margin smooth, with short setae. Metatibia moderately long and wide, widest shortly before middle; ratio width/ length: 1/ 3.5; dorsal margin completely sharply carinate, with two groups of spines; basal group of spines shortly before half of metatibial length, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length; lateral face longitudinally convex, with a few fine and very sparse punctures; ventral margin finely serrated, with four robust, equidistant spines; medial face impunctate, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation sharply truncate. Tarsomeres dorsally glabrous and sparsely finely punctate; pro- and mesotarsomeres ventrally with dense and short setae. Metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrated, longitudinal carina; metatarsomere 1 as long as following two tarsomeres combined and little longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, tridentate; protarsal claws symmetric.  
Aedeagus: Fig. 2I–K. Habitus: Fig. 2I. Female unknown.  
 Diagnosis. Trioserica daweishana new species differs from Tr. maculipennis by the basally more strongly curved left paramere, which is in apical half nearly straight rather than curved (lateral view), as well as by the more narrow right paramere.   
 Etymology. The new species is named after its type locality, Mt. Daweishan.
description: Published as part of Ahrens, Dirk, Liu, Wangang, Fabrizi, Silvia & Bai, Ming, 2021, Taxonomic review on the Trioserica Moser, 1922 species of China (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 343-355 in Zootaxa 4999 (4) on page 351, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5119246