Miridiba hirsuta Itoh 2001
Creators
- 1. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, 105 Xingang Road W., Guangzhou 510260, China.
- 2. Unidad de Protección Vegetal. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (CITA) e Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA 2) (CITA-Universidad de Zaragoza), Avenida Montañana, 930. 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.
Description
Miridiba hirsuta Itoh, 2001
Figs 37–40
Miridiba hirsuta Itoh, 2001: 435, figs 1–9 (type loc.: Ishigakijima, Ryukyus).
Miridiba hirsuta – Smetana & Král 2006: 222 (catalogue). — Coca-Abia 2008: 680, 683 (in key). — Bezděk 2016: 271 (catalogue).
Diagnosis
See Itoh (2001). External morphology of adult and male genitalia (Figs 37–40).
Material examined
JAPAN • 1 ♂; Okinawa, Is. Ishigakijima, Tonoshiro-Takeda; 29 Feb. 2004; T. Nakata leg.; Matsumoto det.; TMC • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; TMC.
Remarks
Itoh (2001) described Miridiba hirsuta based on a male holotype and five paratypes (2 males and 3 females). According to the author (Itoh 2001), this species is closely allied to M. trichophora, but M. hirsuta is distinguishable by the larger size, sharper apices of upper branches of parameres, and antennal club weakly more elongate in male. We have studied five specimens (TMC) collected from the type locality and identified by Mr Matsumoto as M. hirsuta, observing some differences with the type of M. trichophora in endophallus. However, given that we were unable to examine the types of M. hirsuta, it is not possible to confirm that these differences characterize M. hirsuta. Until the types of M. hirsuta are studied, we consider it a valid species. According to the antenna 9-segmented and the parameres described by Itoh (2001), this species is included in this genital morphotype I “ Trichophora ”.
Distribution
Ryukyus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TMC
- Event date
- 2004-02-29
- Family
- Melolonthidae
- Genus
- Miridiba
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Itoh
- Species
- hirsuta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-02-29
- Taxonomic concept label
- Miridiba hirsuta Itoh, 2001 sec. Gao & Coca-Abia, 2021
References
- Itoh T. 2001. A new species of the genus Miridiba (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Melolonthini) from the Yoyama Islands, Southwest Japan. Elytra, Tokyo 29 (2): 435 - 439.
- Smetana A. & Kral D. 2006. Tribe Rhizotrogini Burmeister, 1855. In: Lobl I. & Smetana A. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea: 207 - 228. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark.
- Coca-Abia M. M. 2008. Revision of the genus Miridiba Reitter, 1901 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae). Zoological Science 25 (6): 673 - 685. https: // doi. org / 10.2108 / zsj. 25.673
- Bezdek A. 2016. Tribe Rhizotrogini Burmeister, 1855. In: Lobl I. & Lobl D. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Revised and updated edition: 249 - 280. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.