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

description: Paraplotes yaoi Lee, sp. nov.
(Figs 67–71, 90)
Paraplotes taiwana: Kimoto, 1966: 33; Kimoto, 1991: 16. (misidentification)
Type locality. Kaoshiung county, Tenchih (aeα), 23°04’N, 120°45’E, 1500 m.
Type material (n= 58). Holotype ♂, Kaoshiung, Tengchih (aeα), 26.V.2009, leg. C.-F. Lee. Paratypes: 2♂♂, 2♀♀, same data as holotype; 1♂, same locality, 2–5.VI.2008, leg. C.-F. Lee (TARI); 1♂, 2♀♀, same locality, 5.II.2009, leg. M.-H. Tsou; 5♂♂, 2♀♀, same locality, 18.IV.2013, leg. B.-X. Guo (TARI); 4♂♂, 1♀, same locality, 18.IV.2013, leg. Y.-T. Chung (TARI); 1♂, same locality, 8.VI.2013, leg. W.-C. Liao (TARI); 2♂♂, 1♀, same locality, 6.VII.2013, leg. W.-C. Liao (TARI); 4♂♂, 5♀♀, 3.VIII.2013, leg. B.-X. Guo (TARI); 1♂, 1♀, same locality, 6.VIII.2013, leg. B.-X. Guo (TARI); 1♂, same locality, 10.VIII.2013, leg. W.-C. Liao (TARI); 1♂, Shanping (ffi±), 31.VI.1997, leg. K.-J. Wu (NMNS); 1♂, 2♀♀, Taoyuan (ffiae), 1.VII.2009, leg. M.-H. Tsou; 2♀♀, same locality, 1.VII.2009, leg. S.-F. Yu (TARI); 2♂♂, 1♀, Tonalintao (+Mϔffi), 6.VII.2011, leg. M.-H. Tsou (TARI); 1♂, same locality, 3.II.2013, leg. W.-C. Liao (TARI); Pingtung: 8♂♂, 3♀♀, Machiatsun (ffiYIJ), 22.IX. leg. J.-C. Chen (TARI).
Description. Male: Length 4.5–4.8 mm, width 2.2–2.4 mm. Yellowish-brown or dark yellowish-brown, antenna, coxa, base of femur, and tarsi darkened; meso- and metathoracic ventrites, and abdomen blackish brown; elytron bluish- or purplish- metallic. Antenna relatively long and slender, about 0.8X as long as body; ratios of length to width of antennomeres III to XI about 1.0: 1.1: 1.0: 0.9: 1.1: 1.0: 1.1: 1.1: 1.5. Pronotum strongly transverse, 2.2–2.5X wider than long, anterior margin moderately concave; sides anteriorly widened. Elytra long, about 1.6X longer than wide. Aedeagus (Figs 67–69) wide, about 3.4X longer than wide, sides parallel, apex truncate, but slightly convex near middle; in lateral view moderately curved, apex wide; tectum membranous; apico-lateral scerlites large; lateral spiculae two-paired; median spicaula long, about 0.8X as long as aedeagus.
Female: Length 4.4–4.6 mm, width 2.9–3.1 mm. Similar to males, elytra relatively wider than males, about 1.2X longer than wide. Hind wings extremely reduced or moderately, from 0.22 (in Taoyuan: Figs 90 d & e), 0.24X (in Tengchih: Fig. 90 b), to 0.31X (in Machiatsun: Fig. 90 a) as long as those of males, Gonocoxae (Fig. 70) separated, without sclerites connected. Ventrite VIII (Fig. 71) apically widened, surface with dense setae along apex, as well as apical margin, spiculum slender. Spermathecal receptaculum (Fig. 72) as wide as pump; pump strongly curved, apex widely rounded; spermathecal duct short, slender, shallowly projecting into receptaculum.
Differential diagnosis. See diagnosis of Paraplotes jengi.
Distribution. Widespread in south Taiwan (Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties) (Fig. 79).
Etymology. Dedicated to Dr. Cheng-Te Yao for assisting in collecting.
Notes. Specimens collected from Hoozan (= Fengshan RM) (Kimoto 1966) and Liu Kui (Aa) (Kimoto 1991) should belong to this species based on the localities (all in Kaoshiung county).
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 pages 239-242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/235881