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| Pukupuku arunachalensis Gupta, Chandra & Bezdek, 2017 |
Abstract
A new species of the genus Pukupuku Muramoto, 2006 is described from the state of Arunachal Pradesh (Northeast India): Pukupuku arunachalensis sp. nov. Relevant diagnostic characters are illustrated and compared with closely related species, Pukupuku curtus (Arrow, 1919) and Pukupuku katsurai (Muramoto, 2002). The distribution of the new species is mapped.
Keywords. New species, taxonomy, Northeast India, diagnosis, Palaearctic Region.
Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Suborder Polyphaga Emery, 1886
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802
Family Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802
Subfamily Rutelinae MacLeay, 1819
Genus Pukupuku Muramoto, 2006
Pukupuku arunachalensis sp. nov.
Diagnosis: The newly described species can be easily distinguished by its unique structure of aedeagus, shape and size of mandibles which are sharply pointed at end with a small tooth in middle at outer edge (in lateral view), and four times as long as clypeus, pronotum smooth without setae, pygidium smooth (setae absent in male, present in female). See Table 1 for detailed differential characters separating P. arunachalensis sp. nov. from P. curtus and P. katsurai.
Etymology: The name arunachalensis refers to the Northeastern Himalayan state of India, Arunachal Pradesh.
Devanshu Gupta, Kailash Chandra and Aleš Bezděk. 2017. Pukupuku arunachalensis sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. European Journal of Taxonomy. 257: 1–11. DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.257
Researchgate.net/publication/312038578_Pukupuku_arunachalensis_sp_nov_from_Arunachal_Pradesh_India
