Hyboserica grootkloofensis, 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 : 967

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scientific name	Hyboserica grootkloofensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

HYBOSERICA GROOTKLOOFENSIS View in CoL SP. NOV.

( FIGS 3E, 9)

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Type material examined: Holotype: ♂ ‘ S. Afr., Tvl. Uitsoek Grootkloof ind[igenous] for[est], 25.15S, 30.33E,/ 25.10.1986, E-Y: 2318 ground trap, 50 days, leg. Endrödy-Younga /, ground trap with faeces bait’ ( TMSA) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 1 ♂ ‘S. Afr. , Tvl. Uitsoek Grootkloof, ind. for., 25.15S, 30.33E,/ 16.12.1986, E-Y: 2395 for litter, bef. rain, leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( ZFMK) GoogleMaps , 1 ♂ ‘ S. Afr., Tvl. Uitsoek Waterfall area , 25.16S, 30.33E,/ 13.12.1986, E-Y: 2385, UV GoogleMaps light collection, leg. Endrödy-Younga’ (TMSA), 1 ♂ ‘ S. Afr., Tvl , Uitsoek Grootkloof, ind. for. 25.15S, 30.33E /, 25.10.1986;, E-Y: 2319 intercept trap, 50 d., leg. Endrödy-Younga’ ( TMSA) GoogleMaps .

Diagnostic description: Body length: 10.3 mm, elytral length: 7.5 mm, maximum width: 5.8 mm. Labroclypeus wide and short; not incised or narrowed behind labrum. Anterior margin of labroclypeus medially straight. Angle between lateral margin of labroclypeus and ocular canthus indistinct. Eyes, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.47. 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: 1/1.4. 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: 1/3.7. 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. 3E. Female unknown.

Etymology: The new species is named after the type locality Grootkloof.

Variation: Body length: 10.3–10.4 mm, elytral length: 7.4–7.5 mm, maximum width: 5.7–5.8 mm.