Stenothemus bezdeki Švihla, 2004

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 102

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5176631
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5188287
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD5628-127F-2003-FE2B-FC92FBC1FB58
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scientific name	Stenothemus bezdeki Švihla, 2004
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Treatment

Stenothemus bezdeki Švihla, 2004: 200 .

Material examined. LAOS: HUA PHAN prov., Ban Saluei, Mt. Phu Phan , 20°13′N 103°95′E, 1300-2000 m a.s.l., 6.-17.v.2004, F. & L. Kantner lgt., 4 JJ ; same data, J. Bezděk lgt., 1 J ( NMPC) .

Comments. The species was described according to two males with an almost entirely sepiacoloured body. One of the newly collected specimen has the same coloration, another one possesses a pair of small rusty spots on the anterior half of the pronotum, and the body of three specimens is rusty with largely sepia-coloured frons and vertex, sepia-coloured prosternum, a small antero-lateral spot on the pronotum and scutellum, and entirely rusty elytra.

References

SVIHLA V. 2004: New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from southeastern Asia with notes on other species. Entomologica Basiliensia 26: 155 - 238.