Stenothemus leishanensis Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2014

Ge, Shujuan, Yang, Xingke, Liu, Haoyu & Yang, Yuxia, 2021, Studies on the Stenothemus harmandi species-group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of two new species from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 68659-68659 : 68659

Stenothemus leishanensis Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2014

Stenothemus leishanensis Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2014: 216, figs. 7, 19, 36-38 and 44.

Materials

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Jiliang & Gao Chao; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Stenothemus leishanensis; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; locality: Leigongshan Forestry Centre ; Event : eventDate: 13- 14.09.2005; Record Level : collectionCode: Insects ; ownerInstitutionCode: MHBU; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Jiliang & Gao Chao; individualCount: 3; sex: males; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Stenothemus leishanensis; Location : country: China ; stateProvince: Guizhou; locality: Leigongshan Forestry Centre ; Event : eventDate: 13- 14.09.2005; Record Level : collectionCode: Insects ; ownerInstitutionCode: MHBU; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Description

Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 5 a). Vagina elongate, with median oviduct situated at ventro-apical part, vagina abruptly narrowed in apical part and extended into a short tube from where diverticulum and spermathecal duct are arising; diverticulum short, 0.2 times as long as adult body length, evenly thinned apically, slender tube-shaped and spiral; spermathecal duct 0.1 times longer than diverticulum; spermatheca slender tube-shaped and spiral, thinner than spermathecal duct and nearly as long as diverticulum, with basal part extended into a short tube, at opening of accessory gland. Accessory gland thin in basal part and the remainder relatively thick, 0.9 times as long as spermatheca.

Distribution

China (Guizhou).