Stenothemus distortirudis 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 distortirudis Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2014

Stenothemus distortirudis Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2014: 212, figs. 4, 16, 27-29 and 44.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qiu Tengfei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Stenothemus distortirudis; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Xizang; locality: Nyingchi , Medog , Baibung , Gelin ; Event : eventDate: 04.08.2016; Record Level : collectionCode: Insects ; ownerInstitutionCode: MHBU; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Qiu Tengfei; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Stenothemus distortirudis; Location : country: China ; stateProvince: Xizang; locality: Nyingchi , Medog , Baibung , Gelin ; Event : eventDate: 04.08.2016; Record Level : collectionCode: Insects ; ownerInstitutionCode: MHBU; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Description

Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 4 c). 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 long, 0.4 times as long as adult body length, evenly thinned apically, slender tube-shaped and spiral; spermathecal duct 0.2 times as long as 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, nearly as long as spermatheca.

Distribution

China (Xizang).