Pleophylla navicularis, BURMEISTER, 1855

Eberle, Jonas, Beckett, Marc, Ozgul-Siemund, Alev, Frings, Jujina, Fabrizi, Silvia & Ahrens, Dirk, 2017, Afromontane forests hide 19 new species of an ancient chafer lineage (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): Pleophylla Erichson, 1847 - phylogeny and taxonomic revision, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 180 (2), pp. 321-353 : 337

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12489
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14807105
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scientific name	Pleophylla navicularis
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PLEOPHYLLA NAVICULARIS BURMEISTER, 1855 View in CoL ( FIGS 3I – L View Figure 3 , 5I View Figure 5 , 6)

Pleophylla navicularis Burmeister, 1855: 181 View in CoL [type locality: Weihnachtsbai (Hoppig)]; Schaufuss, 1871: 231; Brenske, 1900: 83; Peringuey, 1904: 7.

Pleophylla flavicornis Schaufuss, 1871: 232 View in CoL [type locality: Caffr., New Germany]; Brenske , 1900: 83, syn. nov.

Type material examined: Lectotype ( navicularis , here designated): ♂ “navicularis Nab. subcylindr. Pt. Nat. Gm. ” ( MLUH). Paralectoptype: 1 ♀ [without labels, provided with a copy of the original collection label] ( MLUH) . Lectotype ( flavicornis , here designated): ♀ “Type./flavicornis m. N. Germ. /Nunqu at. pag. 232/ Coll. L.W. Schaufuss / flavicornis Schauf. Caffraria / Pleophylla ” ( ZMHB) .

Additional material examined: See Appendix S1.

Redescription: Body length: 13.0 mm, elytral length: 9.4 mm, maximum width: 6.6 mm. Angle between lateral margins of labroclypeus and ocular canthus indistinct; anterior margin of labroclypeus medially straight; margins of labroclypeus moderately reflexed; smooth area in front of eyes three times as wide as long; ratio of eye diameter/interocular width: 0.68. Pronotum with dense and thick erect setae; unicoloured; basal margin of pronotum narrowly interrupted medially (distinctly less than scutellum width); larger punctures on pronotum very coarse. Hypomeron not carinate. Elytra with dark spots; erect dorsal pilosity on elytra dense (more than ten setae per interval); sutural interval in apical declivity of elytra distinctly elevated but convex; white, fine pilosity not condensed to longitudinal patches; intervals punctate at least laterally; adpressed white pilosity long, 1/3 to 1/2 of width of elytral intervals; external apical elytral angle evenly convex. Mesosternal process short. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.47. Metatibia, ratio of width/length: 1/4.3. Metatarsi dorsally smooth; first metatarsomere as long as subsequent one. Aedeagus: Fig. 3I – K View Figure 3 . Habitus: Fig. 3L View Figure 3 . Female genitalia: Fig. 5I View Figure 5 .

Remarks: In previous publications we referred to this species as ‘sp11’ (Ozg € ul-Siemund € & Ahrens, 2015; Eberle et al., 2016b).