Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012

Zhang, Lulu, Yang, Yuxia & Okushima, Yûichi, 2016, A contribution to the knowledge of the genera Fissocantharis Pic, 1921 and Micropodabrus Pic, 1920 from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 243, pp. 1-37 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.243

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F54A0E2E-1399-4A45-8B7A-0027A8713B33

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3854590

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87F5-1E6F-FFC6-71E1-1B53875941BE

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Valdenar

scientific name

Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012
status

 

Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012

Figs 4C View Fig , 5G View Fig

Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012: 51 View Cited Treatment , figs 7, 8 12–14.

Material examined

TAIWAN: 1 ♀ (paratype), Taoyuan Hsien, Daguanshan, 4 Apr. 1991, leg. Y. Okushima ( KURA).

Supplementary description

ABDOMINAL STERNITE VIII Oŀ ŀEMALE ( Fig. 5G View Fig ). Distinctly protuberant in middle of posterior margin, the middle protuberance widely subtriangular at apex.

INTERNAL ORGAN Oŀ REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM ( Fig. 4C View Fig ). Vagina stout and nearly global, abruptly narrowed and extended into a moderately long duct near middle of ventral side, the duct distinctly narrowed apically; diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising from the end of the duct of vagina; diverticulum short, spiral and thin; spermathecal duct nearly as long as and slightly thicker than diverticulum; spermatheca composed of a spiral tube which is distinctly longer than diverticulum, basal portion extended into a short tube, where the accessory gland opening; accessory gland thin and very long, much longer than the spiral tube of spermatheca; median oviduct situated at base of vagina.

Remarks

In the present study, the abdominal sternite VIII and genitalia of female are photographed and described for the first time.

Distribution

Taiwan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Elateroidea

Family

Cantharidae

Genus

Fissocantharis

Loc

Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012

Zhang, Lulu, Yang, Yuxia & Okushima, Yûichi 2016
2016
Loc

Fissocantharis laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012: 51

Yang Y. X. & Okushima Y. & Yang X. K. 2012: 51
2012
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