Scutellathous yamashitai Arimoto, 1992

Liu, Zhen & Jiang, Shi-hong, 2019, The genus Scutellathous Kishii, 1955 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Dendrometrinae) in China, with description of three new species, ZooKeys 857, pp. 85-104 : 85

Scutellathous yamashitai Arimoto, 1992 Fig. 12

Scutellathous yamashitai Arimoto, 1992: 73.

Diagnosis

(after Arimoto 1992). Length 12.6 mm, width 2.8 mm; body almost parallel-sided, flattened and shining dorsally, dark brown; antennae extending beyond apices of hind angles of pronotum by at least apical two antennomeres, antennomere 2 obconic, slightly longer than wide, antennomere 3 elongate triangular, about twice as long as 2 and longer than 4; pronotum as wide as long, with a shallow median impression in basal half, surface smooth and shining, sparsely and evenly punctate, hind angles short, divergent posterad, with carina; scutellar shield subvertical, with the sides somewhat constricted at posterior fourth; elytra about 2.9 times as long as humeral width, striae with coarse, uneven and elongate punctures, interstriae slightly elevated, irregularly punctate and transversely rugose; aedeagus with penis not reaching apex of parameres, apex of parameres depressed and furnished with some short setae.

Scutellathous yamashitai is similar to S. comes from Japan, but distinguished from by its darker color, smaller pronotal punctures, and divergent pronotal hind angles ( Arimoto 1992).

Remarks.

No specimen was available for this study.

Distribution.

China (Taiwan) (Fig. 12).