Paraplotes tsoui Lee, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lee, Chi-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Paraplotes
Paraplotes tsoui

description: Paraplotes tsoui Lee, sp. nov.
(Figs 55–60, 88)
Type locality. New Taipei city, Wulai (ae※), 24°51’N, 121°33’E, 300 m.
Type material (n= 22). Holotype ♂: Taipei: Wulai (ae※), 22.V.2009, leg. H.-J. Chen” (TARI). Paratypes: 1♂, same locality, 20.VI.2009, leg. C.-F. Lee (TARI); 1♀, Urai (= Wulai), 4.IV.1940, leg. M. Chujo (TARI); 1♂: Fushan (3M), 11.V.2009, leg. H.-J. Chen (TARI); 2♂♂, 1♀: Chihtanshan (sffiM), 12.III.2009, leg. S.-F. Yu (TARI); Taoyuan: 3♂♂, 1♀, Lalashan (uuM), 13.V.2009, leg. C.-F. Lee (TARI); 1♀, same locality, 18.V.1999, leg. C W. & L. B. O’Brien (NMNS); 1♀, Tungman (≹Α), 2.X.2008, leg. H. Lee (TARI); 1♂, Tungyanshan (≹Dz M), 12.IV.2007, leg. M.-H. Tsou (TARI); Ilan: 1♂, Fushan Chihwuyuan (3Mffin'№), 20.III, 2009, leg. C.-F. Lee (TARI); 1♂, Mingchi (%m), 16.VIII.2008, leg. M.-H. Tsou (TARI); 1♂, 1♀, Ssuhilintao (oiTϔffi), leg. H.- J. Chen (TARI); 1♂, Taiheizan (= Taipingshan, A±M), 10.V.1942, leg. A. Tanaka (TARI); 1♂, 1♀, same locality, 30.IV.2009, leg. C.-F. Lee (TARI); Taichung: 1♂, Ssuyuan (dae), 9.VI.2009, leg. S.-F. Yu (TARI).
Description. Male: Length 4.6–4.8 mm, width 2.7–2.8 mm. Brown or blackish brown; thoracic and abdominal ventrites blackish brown or black; elytra bluish- or purplish- metallic. Antenna relatively short, about 0.7X as long as body; but slender, ratios of length to width of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.0: 1.0: 1.0: 1.1: 1.0: 1.0: 1.1: 1.5. Pronotum strongly transverse, 2.1X wider than long, anterior margin slightly concave, lateral margin rounded. Elytra long, about 1.4X longer than wide. Aedeagus (Figs 55–57) relative wider about 3.1X longer than wide, twisted at middle, widest near apex, then abruptly narrowed; apex concave at middle of apical margin, apical margin slightly irregular; in lateral view moderately curved, gradually narrowed toward apex; tectum membranous; apico-lateral sclerites large; lateral spiculae two-paired; median specula long, about 0.8X as long as aedeagus.
Female:Length 4.3–4.8 mm, width 2.6–3.0 mm. Similar to males, but elytra relatively wider than males, about 1.3–1.4X longer than wide. Hind wings (Fig. 88) extremely reduced, about 0.14–0.20X as long as those of males, apically reduced. Gonocoxae (Fig. 58) connected with one transverse sclerite, widest near base, basal margin slightly concave; connection between gonocoxae and sclerite extremely wide. Ventrite VIII (Fig. 59) apically and extremely widened, surface with dense setae along apex, as well as apical margin, spiculum slender. Spermathecal receptaculum (Fig. 60) as wide as pump; pump strongly curved, apex widely rounded; spermathecal duct short, stout, shallowly projecting into receptaculum.
Differential diagnosis. Similar to Paraplotes meihuai (Figs 21–26). Paraplotes tsoui, P. tsuenensis and P. yuae are characterized by their asymmetric and twisted aedeagi (Figs 55–57, 61–63, 73–75). P. ts oui and P. y u ae are separated from P. tsuenensis by the irregular and tapering apical margins of aedeagi (Figs 55–57, 73–75). P. tsoui differs from P. y ua e by its wider aedeagus in dorsal and lateral views, and the concave apex (Figs 55–57).
Distribution. Widespread in northern Taiwan (Taipei city, Taoyuan, Ilan, and Taichung counties) (Fig. 79).
Etymology. Dedicated to Mr. Mei-Hua Tsou for collecting a portion of type specimens.
description: Published as part of Lee, Chi-Feng, 2015, The genus Paraplotes Laboissière, 1933 in Taiwan, a speciose group with brachelytrous females (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), pp. 223-248 in Zootaxa 3904 (2) on page 237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/235881