identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
A244E048FE4B490AFF00FB189430AD57.text	A244E048FE4B490AFF00FB189430AD57.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Ipelates schmidti Schawaller 2005	<div><p>Ipelates schmidti Schawaller, 2005</p> <p>(Fig. 1)</p> <p>Chinese common name: Ṁ氏fflDNJflm</p> <p>Ipelates schmidti Schawaller, 2005: 122. Type locality: C. Nepal, Ganesh Himal, Jaisuli Kund Basecamp, 4100 m.</p> <p>Material examined. One male, labeled ‘ China: Tibet, Gyirong County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=85.39916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=28.40361" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 85.39916/lat 28.40361)">Gyirong Town</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=85.39916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=28.40361" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 85.39916/lat 28.40361)">Lhanggyi Tso Holy Lake</a>, 28°24’13”N, 85°23’57”E, 3970 m, 24.vii.2022, Z.-W. Yin leg. 吉ǥDz朗吉ffiDzdz ’ (SNUC).</p> <p>Discussion. The external morphology of the studied specimen generally agrees with the original description of I. schmidti. After a comparison with a paratype through the help of Jan Růžička, two differences were noticed: 1) there are fewer observable punctures at the antero-lateral and lateral portions of the pronotum, and more distinctly, 2) the apex of the aedeagus is dorso-ventrally more roundly truncate (lateral margins of apical part evenly narrowing to form roundtriangular apex in the paratype of I. schmidti). Since only three specimens previously collected from a single locality are available, and it can be expected that in a wingless beetle species such as I. schmidti it would be easier to form distinct geographically-isolated populations, we therefore refrain from assigning the population of Tibet as a separate species. Further sampling efforts are certainly needed to determine the potential distributional range and intraspecific morphological variation of this species.</p> <p>The body parts of the Tibetan specimen were measured for comparative purposes: total body length (from anterior margin of clypeal apex to posterior margin of elytra) 4.84 mm, width of head across eyes 1.11 mm, length of antennae 2.57 mm, relative length of antennomeres 1–11: 1.9: 1.9: 3.1: 2.3: 2.2: 2.2: 2.4: 2.3: 2.3: 2.1: 3.0, midlength of pronotum 1.22 mm, maximum/basal width of pronotum 2.80 mm / 2.23 mm, length of elytra along suture (from caudal tip of scutellum to elytral apex) 2.59 mm, maximum width of elytra 2.95 mm, length of aedeagus 2.35 mm.</p> <p>Comparative notes. Ipelates schmidti (Fig. 1A) can be readily recognized and separated from all Himalayan congeners (especially from I. ruzickai Schawaller distributed in eastern Nepal) by its moderate body size (4.5–5.0 mm), pronotum with rectangular posterolateral corners, and its surface only with sparse punctures (mostly at lateral portions) and lacking microsculpture, elytra (Fig. 1A) each with a narrow epipleural keel, surface with feeble transverse microsculpture, and lateral margins completely serrate, the form of sternite VIII (Fig. 1B), and relatively elongate and slender aedeagus (Fig. 1C, E) with an apically narrowed apex (Fig. 1D). Additionally, the key of Růžička and Pütz (2009) also leads to an identification of this species.</p> <p>Biology. The beetle was collected from a sifted sample of fern and low bush leaves on a slope at an altitude of approximately 3970 m (Fig. 1F). The collecting site is about 30 km east by a straight-line distance from the type locality; but the two localities are well-isolated by high snow peaks in between.</p> <p>Distribution. Nepal (Gandaki) (Schawaller 2005: fig. 18); SW China (Tibet). New country record for China.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A244E048FE4B490AFF00FB189430AD57	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Pubu, Zhuoma;Yin, Zi-Wei	Pubu, Zhuoma, Yin, Zi-Wei (2022): First record of Ipelates schmidti Schawaller (Coleoptera: Agyrtidae: Agyrtinae) from China. Zootaxa 5194 (3): 444-446, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5194.3.8
