Sehnal Richard
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Kamýcká 129, CZ-165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic..
Zootaxa. 2018 Nov 13;4521(1):137-140. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.1.10.
The genus Eulepida Kolbe, 1894 presently contains 22 species (Lacroix 2017, Sehnal 2018) divided on the base of external and aedeagal morphology into three groups (see Lacroix 2010, 2013 for details). Group II is defined by the combination of the following characters: protibia bidentate; antennal club distinctly longer than antennal shaft; pygidium narrow, longer than wide, with a pronounced elongate terminal invagination; and parameres symmetrical, long, evenly curved in ventral aspect (Lacroix 2010). Until recently this group contained three species, E. anatina Brenske, 1896, E. tschindeana Péringuey, 1904 and E. werneri Lacroix, 2010, to which Lacroix Montreuil (2017) added E. delgadoensis from Mozambique and Sehnal (2018) added E. mbala from Zambia. Shortly after the description of E. mbala I received large series of melolonthines from Zimbabwe and Mozambique, which included another markedly different group II species of Eulepida described below.
尤勒皮达属（Eulepida Kolbe，1894）目前包含22个物种（拉克鲁瓦，2017；谢纳尔，2018），根据外部形态和阳茎形态分为三组（详细信息见拉克鲁瓦，2010，2013）。第二组由以下特征组合定义：前胫节具两齿；触角棒明显长于触角柄节；臀板狭窄，长大于宽，具明显的细长末端凹陷；阳茎侧叶对称，长，腹面均匀弯曲（拉克鲁瓦，2010）。直到最近，该组包含三个物种，即1896年的阿纳蒂纳尤勒皮达（E. anatina Brenske）、1904年的钦德尤勒皮达（E. tschindeana Péringuey）和2010年的韦纳里尤勒皮达（E. werneri Lacroix），拉克鲁瓦·蒙特勒伊（2017）将来自莫桑比克的德尔加多尤勒皮达（E. delgadoensis）加入该组，谢纳尔（2018）将来自赞比亚的姆巴拉尤勒皮达（E. mbala）加入该组。在姆巴拉尤勒皮达被描述后不久，我收到了来自津巴布韦和莫桑比克的大量鳃金龟科昆虫标本，其中包括下文描述的另一种明显不同的尤勒皮达属第二组物种。
