Stenothemus orbiculatus Svihla , 2005

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 orbiculatus Svihla, 2005

Stenothemus orbiculatus Švihla, 2005: 99, figs. 58, 62 and 65.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Liang Hongbin; individualCount: 2; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Stenothemus orbiculatus; Location : country: China; county: Xizang; locality: Medog , Zhamo Highway , 62 K ; verbatimElevation: 2787 m; Event : eventDate: 29.08.2015; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects; ownerInstitutionCode: IZAS; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yao Jian; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon : scientificName: Stenothemus orbiculatus; Location : country: China; county: Xizang; locality: Medog , Zhamo Highway , 62 K ; verbatimElevation: 2787 m; Event : eventDate: 29.08.2015; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects; ownerInstitutionCode: IZAS; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Liang Hongbin & Wang Mingqiang; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Stenothemus orbiculatus; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Xizang; locality: Mainling , Paimo Highway ; verbatimElevation: 3321 m; Event : eventDate: 06.08.2015; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects; ownerInstitutionCode: IZAS; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Description

Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 5 b). 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, 0.1 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 1.1 times longer than 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), India.