Neolucanus montanus Kriesche, 1935

Wan, Xia, Bartolozzi, Luca & Yang, Xingke, 2007, Taxonomic notes on some Chinese species of Neolucanus Thomson and Prismognathus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), Zootaxa 1510, pp. 51-56 : 51-53

Neolucanus montanus Kriesche, 1935

( Figs. 1–4, 7–9 )

Neolucanus montanus Kriesche, 1935: 169 .

Neolucanus aterrimus Weinreich, 1959: 757 . New synonym.

Material examined. Holotype female of Neolucanus montanus (in SMTD) labeled: 1) Szechuwan Mer Mts. Kinfushan, 2000m, Pr. Flum Suang-kanho; 2) Neolucanus montanus m., Type; 3) 5380; 4) Type; 5) Sammlung Kriesche Ankouf, 1974; 6) Staatl. Museum für Tierkunde. Dresden. Holotype male of Neolucanus aterrimus (in DEI) labeled: 1) Giufu-shan, Grenze Thibet Ost. Em. Reitter; 2) Dtsch. Entomol. Institut Berlin; 3) Neolucanus aterrimus , n. sp., m., Weinreich det., 1959; 4) Holotypus, Neolucanus aterrimus , n. sp., m., Weinreich. Allotype female of Neolucanus aterrimus (in DEI) labeled: 1) Coll. DEI Müncheberg, Allotypus; 2) Grenze Thibet Ost. Em. Reitter, Giufushan; 3) Dtsch. Entomol. Institut Berlin; 4) Neolucanus aterrimus , n. sp., f. Additional specimens examined – 1 male labeled: Ginfushan, Sammlung Kriesche Ankouf, 1974; 1 female labeled: Südost, Szechuan, 600–1600m, Ginfushan, China (both in SMTD).

Remarks. Neolucanus aterrimus ( Figs. 1–2 ) was previously known from the original description and an illustration of a male by Krajcik (2003). The species has many morphological and genitalic similarities with Neolucanus montanus ( Figs. 3–4 ) as follows: 1) Mandibles: shorter than head, the upper margins without small tooth, the lower margin with four small teeth. 2) Head: almost square, vertex with a triangular concave medially. Males canthi are almost rectangle and female canthi are semicircle. 3) Pronotum: almost trapezoidal, medial disc is slightly convex. 4) Elytra: slightly round, distinctly concave near the margin. 5) Legs: all the legs are very similar, with almost identical number of small teeth along the tibiae. 6) Genitalia: male genitalia very similar ( Figs.7–8 ), the aedeagus is almost same shape, internal sac permanently everted, stout and long, twice as long as the total length of paramere and phallobase; the apex of parameres are blunt. Female genitalia ( Fig. 9 ) with shape of hemisternites similar; 3/4 part of hemisternites are peanut-like anteriorly and 1/4 part of hemisternites are thin and strut-like posteriorly. 6) Locality: found in the same locality, Mount Ginfushan (old name is Kinfu shan, present name is Mt. Jinfoshan), Sichuan Province, China. We here place these two names in synonymy.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 11. 1 – Holotype of N. aterrimus; 2 – Allotype of N. aterrimus; 3 – Male of N. montanus; 4 – Holotype of N. montanus; 5 – Holotype of P. branczicki; 6 – Holotype of P. platycephalus; 7 – Aedeagus of N. montanus, ventral view; 8 – Aedeagus of N. montanus, lateral view; 9 – Female genitalia of N. montanus, ventral view; 10 – Aedeagus of P. platycephalus, ventral view; 11 – Aedeagus of P. platycephalus, lateral view. Figs. 1 – 6, scale bars = 10 mm; Figs. 7 – 11, scale bars = 1 mm.