Corresponding author: Mei-Jun Zhao (
Academic editor: Michael Thomas
A new species
The subfamily
While examining Burmese specimens of
Because no specimens of
Previously, a total of six species have been reported for
In this work, one new species of
To examine the genitalia, the abdominal segments were detached from the body after softening in hot water. The genitalia, together with other dissected parts, were mounted in Euparal (Chroma Gesellschaft Schmidt, Koengen, Germany) on plastic slides. Photos of sexual characters were taken with a FUJIFILM X10 camera attached to an Olympus SZX 16 stereoscope; habitus photos were taken with a Canon macro photo lens MP-E 65 mm attached to a Canon EOS7D camera.
The specimen treated in this study is deposited in the following public collection:
Parts of the following key were taken from
1 | Antennomere XI almost as long as broad | 2 |
– | Antennomere XI much broader than long | 4 |
2 | Pronotum yellow, elytra with rather indefinite reddish patch at base | |
– | Pronotum orange, elytra without rather indefinite reddish patch at base | 3 |
3 | Legs black | |
– | Legs brown | |
4 | Elytra with markings | 5 |
– | Elytra without markings | 8 |
5 | Pronotum black | |
– | Pronotum orange to red | 6 |
6 | Pronotum with a black median line | |
– | Pronotum without a black median line | 7 |
7 | Pronotum with black spots, elytra with X-shaped orange markings | |
– | Pronotum without black spots, elytra with orange markings not X-shaped | |
8 | Dark above | |
– | Pale above and beneath |
Body (
Head (
Head of
Habitus of
Pronotum transverse, convex above, widest at base (pl/pw = 0.70); anterior angles weakly projecting; lateral margins gently curved toward eyes. Pronotum distinctly punctured medially, finely and closely punctured laterally.
Prosternum (
Scutellum pentagonal, finely and sparely punctured.
Legs short, tibiae triangular, with the extremities very broad and hollowed for the tarsi.
Elytra widest at middle, then gradually narrowing to apex; each with 9 punctate lines.
Female genitalia (
China (Hainan Province).
The new species can be distinguished from other species in this genus by the black pronotum and red markings of the elytra.
This species is named in honor of Mr. Wen-Xuan Bi, collector of the new species.
We thank Paul E. Skelley, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, USA and Richard A.B. Leschen, New Zealand for all of their assistance providing methods and information for this study. We thank Wen-xuan, Bi, the collector of this new species for providing specimens for this work. The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101659 and No. 31172134), the Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No. 12YZ077) and by Shanghai Normal University (DZL125).