Lycocerus pictipennis (Wittmer, 1995)

Wang, Younan, Liu, Haoyu, Yang, Xingke & Yang, Yuxia, 2023, Review of the Lycocerus pallidulus group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of six new species from China, ZooKeys 1176, pp. 243-285 : 243

Lycocerus pictipennis (Wittmer, 1995)

Fig. 7D-F

Athemus (Isathemus) pictipennis Wittmer, 1995: 276, figs 142, 143.

Type material examined.

Holotype: 1♂ (NHMB), China, Yunnan, Dongchuan, 26°31'07'N, 103°14'E (DDM), 28.VI-3.VII.1994, leg. Vit Kubáň.

Non-type material examined.

1♂ (MHBU), Myanmar, Prov. Kachin Mt Emaw Bum, 2358 m road of Kanphant, 26°09'N, 98°31'E (DDM), 28.V.2006, leg. L. Langer.

Descriptive notes.

Male. Aedeagus: basal piece as long as dorsal plate of each paramere (Fig. 7D-F ); ventral process of each paramere thin and bent inwards in ventral view (Fig. 7D ), inclining ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 7F ); dorsal plates of parameres obviously longer than ventral processes (Fig. 7D, F ), with apical margins rounded in lateral view (Fig. 7E ); laterophyse slightly shorter than ventral process, with apices acute and directing dorso-outwards (Fig. 7D, F ).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan); Myanmar (new record).

Remarks.

This species was missing in the Palaearctic Catalogue by Kazantsev and Brancucci (2007). It is recorded to Myanmar for the first time herein. The aedeagus of this species was illustrated only in ventral and lateral views by Wittmer (1995). Here, the aedeagus is illustrated in ventral, dorsal, and lateral views, and the abdominal sternite VIII and internal genitalia of female are illustrated for the first time.

Figures

Figure 7. Aedeagus A-C Lycocerus putzi Svihla, 2011 D-F L. pictipennis (Wittmer, 1995) A, D ventral view B, E dorsal view C, F lateral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.