Stenothemus dentatus Wittmer, 1974

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 dentatus Wittmer, 1974

Stenothemus dentatus Wittmer, 1974: 52, fig. 5.

Materials

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: F. Schmid; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Stenothemus dentatus; Location : country: India; stateProvince: Assam; locality: Kameng , Bomdi La ; verbatimElevation: 8800ft; Event : eventDate: 17.06.1961; Record Level: language: en; collectionCode: Insects; ownerInstitutionCode: NHMB; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Distribution

India.

Notes

S. alexandrae was treated as a subspecies of S. dentatus due to the similarity of aedeagus in the orginal description ( Švihla 2004), suggesting their close relationship. For the same reason with S. alexandrae , S. dentatus was not included in the S. harmandi species-group by Švihla (2005). As what is noted for S. alexandrae , except for the ventral process bent ventrad to a lesser extent, other characteristics of the aedeagus of S. dentatus match the diagnosis of S. harmandi species-group well, including both ventral process and dorsal plate of each paramere bent ventrad, ventral process thickened terminally and dorsal plate narrowed apically. Therefore, we suggest S. dentatus should also be included in the S. harmandi species-group.