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.

Published as part of Grebennikov, Vasily V., 2014, DNA barcode and phylogeography of six new high altitude wingless Niphadomimus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from Southwest China, pp. 151-173 in Zootaxa 3838 (2) on pages 156-157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4921799