Niphadomimus alcyone Grebennikov 2014, sp. n.
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Niphadomimus alcyone sp. n.
Figs. 1, 2, 11A–B.
Diagnostic description. Holotype, female (Figs. 1, 11A). Genbank accession: KJ427731. Length: 2.78 mm. Color black; prosternal depression not delimited on each side by longitudinal keel; femoral tooth higher than its width at base and markedly developed (Fig. 2B); elytral interstriae not tuberculate.
Intraspecific variation. Length 2.45–2.78 mm.
Material examined. Holotype female (IZCAS): #2439, “P.R. CHINA, Sichuan, NE slope Gongga Shan, N29°53'23" E102°01'31", 08.vi.2011, 3886m, sift13, V.Grebennikov ”. Paratype (CNC), female (Figs. 2, 11B), #4429, “ CHINA, Sichuan, 23km E Songpan, N32°37'57" E103°49'20", 27.v.2012, 3761m, sifting 12, V. Grebennikov ”.
Distribution. Gongga Shan and Songpan regions in Sichuan, China; in the Gongga Shan area sympatrically with N. celaeno sp. n. Elevation: 3761–3886 m.
Etymology. The species epithet is a Latinized Greek mythical name of Alcyone, one of the Pleiades, mother of Hyrieus, Hyperenor and Aethusa by Poseidon; noun in apposition.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CNC , IZCAS
- Event date
- 2011-06-08 , 2012-05-27
- Verbatim event date
- 2011-06-08 , 2012-05-27
- Scientific name authorship
- Grebennikov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Niphadomimus
- Species
- alcyone
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Niphadomimus alcyone Grebennikov, 2014