Anomala yemaoi, Wang & -, 2022

Wang, Fa-Lei & -, P. R .., 2022, Three new species of genus Anomala Samouelle from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae), Faunitaxys 10 (56), pp. 1-9 : 4

Anomala yemaoi sp. nov. (öãṳ ® ※ Ħ)

( Fig. 21- 29, 58 -61)

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Holotype, ♂ ( MYNU), CHINA, Yunnan / Lincang City, Yunxian County / Manwan , Manjiu , VII.2014 / 100°36'15.24" E, 24°72'11.84" N / alt. 2,000 m, Mao Ye leg. // HOLOTYPE / Anomala yemaoi / Fa-Lei Wang det. 2022.

Para t ypes:

- 1 ♀ ( MYNU), CHINA, Yunnan / Lincang City, Yunxian County / Manwan , Manjiu , VII.2014 / 100°36'15.24" E, 24°72'11.84" N / alt. 2,000 m, Mao Ye leg. // PARATYPE / Anomala yemaoi / Fa-Lei Wang det. 2022;

- 1 ♂ ( CFLW), CHINA, Yunnan / Lincang City, Yunxian County / Manwan , Manjiu , 8–12.V.2015 / 100°36'15.24" E, 24°72'11.84" N / alt. 2,000 m, Fa-Lei Wang leg.// PARATYPE / Anomala yemaoi / Fa-Lei Wang det. 2022;

- 1 ♂ & 1 ♀ ( CFLW), CHINA, Yunnan / Lincang City, Yunxian County / Manwan , Manjiu , 19.VI.2016 / 100°36'15.24" E, 24°72'11.84" N / alt. 2,000 m, Mao Ye leg.// PARATYPE / Anomala yemaoi / Fa-Lei Wang det. 2022;

- 2 ♂ & 1 ♀ ( CFLW), CHINA, Yunnan / Lincang City, Yunxian County / Manwan , Manjiu , VII.2014 / 100°36'15.24" E, 24°72'11.84" N / alt. 2,000 m, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. // PARATYPE / Anomala yemaoi / Fa-Lei Wang det. 2022;

- 1 ♂ & 1 ♀ ( CZGG), China, C. Yunnan, Yuxi, Xinping , 2000m, v-viii. 2019, local collector leg .;

- 1 ♂ ( MFNB): China. Prov. Yunnan. Vallis flumin. Soling-ho .;

- 1 ♂ ( MFNB), Yunnan Mouy-Tse .

Description of holotype ( Fig. 21, 22 & 25-28)

General appearance. – Length: 13.6 mm, greatest width: 7.1 mm.

Elongate ovoid, moderately convex.

Color . – Dorsally dark reddish brown with weak metallic green luster, which is moderately strong on the head and pronotum. Anterior margin of clypeus dark reddish-brown, antenna dark brown, antennal club yellowish brown. Ventral coloration dark reddish brown with dark green metallic luster except the middle of the last abdominal ventrite. Legs dark brown with noticeable metallic green luster, all the claws and apex of protibia reddish-brown.

Head. – Clypeus subtrapezoidal, anterior angles broadly rounded, with dense transverse punctures, anterior margin strongly reflexed. Frons very densely punctate, sparser at base, interocular distance 0.65 times as wide as the maximum transverse width of head. Antenna covered with pale hairs, antennal club shorter than preceding 6 antennomeres.

Pronotum. – Disc densely, uniformly punctate, circular punctures anteriorly, transverse punctures posteriorly, denser at sides, each puncture bearing one yellow short seta. Anterior angles sub-rightangle, posterior angles slightly acute, rounded. Sides convex at middle, without lateral and basal marginal line, with smooth area along posterior margin.

Scutellum . –Triangular,wider thanlong, apex rounded.Surfacevariably punctate, sparsely at apex, with one short seta in most of punctures.

Elytra . – Approximately 1.25 times as long as wide, with dense, irregular punctures, denser around scutellum and on sides, punctures forming several striae, intervals raised distinctly, the second stria faint, all striae weak at base. Humeral umbone processed, epipleuron narrow, disappearing at posterior 1/3.

Pygidium . – Moderately convex in profile, with transverse punctures, dense at disc, covered with short, brown setae, long and sparse at apex. All margins rounded, posterior margin flat.

Abdominal ventrites. – With dense, large, transverse punctures, punctures gradually becoming denser and smaller to the sides, each puncture with one short, brown seta. Hind margin of abdominal ventrites 1–4 smooth, abdominal ventrites 1–4 with a row of long,

sparse, brown setae near middle.

Legs. –Protibia bidentate, apicaltoothrather long, basal toothshort, acute, inner spur long. Mesotibia and metatibia slightly fusiform, with several scattered depressions and brown setae (scattered or aligned). Protarsal and mesotarsal outer claws clefted, metatarsal inner claws long, simple.

Genitalia. – As in Fig. 25-27.

Female ( Figs. 23, 24 & 29). – Body shape moderately thinner; pronotum more convex, with a distinct longitudinal medial furrow. Terminal tooth of protibia longer, obtuse. With two arcuate vaginal palps, with dense yellow hair at apex, membrane between two vaginal palps osseous, broad and smooth.

Measurement. – Male: body length 13.4-13.9 mm, width 6.6-7.1 mm. Female: body length 13.5-14.2 mm, width 6.7-6.8 mm.

Diagnosis. – In the Anomala hirsutula species-group (see diagnosis of A. yanxui ), this new species is related to A. iwasei Miyake, 1994 ( China: Yunnan; Laos; Vietnam), A. sapa Miyake, 1994 ( China: Guangxi; Vietnam) and A. dongi Wang, 2021 ( Laos) depending on the characteristic of male genitalia ( Lin 1996; Miyake 1994; Wang 2021c; Zorn et al., 2017):

- Ventral plate of male genitalia almost the same length as the parameres ( Fig. 27, 32, 35 & 38);

- Parameres almost symmetric ( Figs. 25, 30, 33 & 36);

- Outer margin and the dorsal surface (anterior half) of parameres wear long setae ( Fig. 25, 30, 33 & 36).

The new species can be distinguished from A. iwasei in male genitalia by:

- Size distinctly smaller;

- Ventral plate shorter than the parameres ( Figs. 27 & 32), weakly widened at apex ( Fig. 26 & 31);

- Middle of inner margin of the parameres reflexed ( Figs. 25 & 30), and not extended ( Fig. 27 & 32).

Anomala yemaoi sp. nov. is different from A. dongi and A. sapa in male genitalia by size smaller, the ventral plate slenderer in anterior half ( Fig. 26, 34 & 37).

Anomala yemaoi sp. nov. is different from A. planicauda by female vaginal ( Lin 1996) palps longer and slenderer ( Fig. 29).

Etymology. – The species is named after Mr. Mao Ye, who collected most type specimens.

Distribution (Fig. 61). – China: Yunnan (Mengzi, Xinping, Yuanmou, and Yunxian).

Remarks. – The locations of two old place names on the labels of two paratypes were consulted Dr. Hao Xu (MYNU): “ China. Prov. Yunnan.Vallis flumin.Soling-ho” and “ Yunnan Mouy-Tse”.He has much experience inidentifying old namesof the places in China wrote by westerners in taxonomic works and specimen labels of Cetoniinae . “Soling-ho” is Longchuan Jiang at Yuanmou county, Yunnan province. “Mouy-Tse” is Mengzi city of Honghe, southeastern Yunnanprovince(Fig. 61).