Hyboserica uhligi, Fabrizi & Eberle & Ahrens, 2019

Fabrizi, Silvia, Eberle, Jonas & Ahrens, Dirk, 2019, Unexpected diversity of Hyboserica chafers in South African forest remnants: cladistic analysis, new species and the new genus Leoserica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186, pp. 950-982 : 976

publication ID

2F9DBBD-B219-4F54-A698-B7859D39BFED

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EA8A53-4935-FFC6-AF17-FABAFBF6C1C0

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Hyboserica uhligi
status

sp. nov.

HYBOSERICA UHLIGI View in CoL SP. NOV.

( FIGS 6E, 9)

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Type material examined: Holotype: ♂ ‘ Zimbabwe, 7.xii.1993, 18°27’S / 32°47’E, Nyanga NP: Pungwe- Gorge, Pungwe River banks + wood litter sievings, leg. M. Uhlig’ ( ZMHB). GoogleMaps

Diagnostic description: Body length: 9 mm, elytral length: 6.35 mm, maximum width: 4.62 mm. Labroclypeus wide and short; not incised or narrowed behind labrum. Anterior margin of labroclypeus medially weakly sinuate. Angle between lateral margin of labroclypeus and ocular canthus indistinct. Eyes, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.52. Antennal club as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum convexly elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly. Basal marginal line of pronotum widely absent. Marginal line of anterior margin of pronotum medially widely interrupted. Hind wings fully developed. Epipleural edge complete over entire elytral length. Metasternum and metepisernites in length normal. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.35. Metacoxa glabrous except a few fine lateral setae; its anterior marginal line complete. Protibia, externally tridentate; external margin between apical two teeth moderately sinuated. Metatibia, ratio of width/length: 1/3.75. Basal group of dorsal spines of metatibia at first-third of metatibial length; apical group of external spines at two-thirds of metatibial length. Apex of metatibia interiorly near tarsal articulation not sinuate or truncate; apical face simple, not elevated or produced. Meso- and metatarsomeres dorsally impunctate. Mesotarsomere 1 slightly longer than the subsequent tarsomere. Aedeagus and habitus: Fig. 6E. Female unknown.

Etymology: The new species is dedicated to M. Uhlig, collector of the new species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Hyboserica

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