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Lilioceris balyi Chujo 1962

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China & College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China Corresponding author, E-mail: lianghb @ ioz. ac. cn
  • 2. Gongshan Protection Sub-Bureau, Gaoligongshan National Nature Reserve, Gongshan 673500, Yunnan, China
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Description

Lilioceris balyi Chûjô, 1962 (Fig.1)

Lilioceris balyi Chûjô, 1962: 1 (Japan).

Material examined. ♂ (BMNH), Holotype / C. subpolita, Type, Baly / Hiogo / Baly collection / Lilioceris (s. str.) balyi Chûjô, det M. CHUJO, 1962.

Remarks. This species was once recorded by Baly (1873) as var. B of Crioceris subpolita Motschulsky, 1861. Kimoto (1961) recognized it as an undescribed species. Then, Chûjô (1962) named it as Lilioceris balyi and provided a detailed description. However, based on the observation of the holotype by the third author (LHB) and Ms. Yingqi Liu (BMNH), an error was found in Chûjô’s original description. In the holotype, the mesoventral process is slightly widened, tuberculate, horizontally connected with metaventrite, rather than "neither dilated apically nor bending backwardly" in Chûjô (1962). In addition, the right antennomeres 3–11 was actually missing (Fig. 5) when we checked, while it’s complete in Chûjô (1962: 1). This species is similar to L. subpolita, but differs from the latter by having punctures of elytral striae extending to the elytral apex (punctures absent on the apical half in L. subpolita).

Distribution (Fig. 30). Japan.

Host plant and habitat. Unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Xu, Yuan, Xiong, Yun & Liang, Hongbin, 2021, A review of the neptis species group of the genus Lilioceris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae), pp. 300-316 in Zoological Systematics 46 (4) on page 302, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2021404, http://zenodo.org/record/7176018

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Chujo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Lilioceris
Species
balyi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lilioceris balyi Chujo, 1962 sec. Xu, Xiong & Liang, 2021

References

  • Chujo, M. 1962. Description of a new chrysomelid-beetle from Japan. Niponius, Acta Coleopterologica, 1 (18): 1 - 3.
  • Baly, J. S. 1873. Catalogue of the phytophagous Coleoptera of Japan, with descriptions of the species new to science. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1873: 69 - 99.
  • Motschulsky, V. 1861. Insectes du Japon. Etudes Entomologiques, 9: 4 - 39.
  • Kimoto, S. 1961. A revisional note on the type specimens of Japanese Chrysomelidae which are preserved in the museums of Europe and the United States. I. Konyu, 29: 159 - 166.