Stenothemus favrei ( Pic, 1907 )

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 95

Stenothemus favrei ( Pic, 1907)

( Figs. 53-54 )

Themus favrei Pic, 1907: 175 . Stenothemus favrei: WITTMER (1974) : 54.

Material examined. INDIA: Travancore [= KERALA state], Wallardi [type locality], without date and collector, 2 ♀♀, det. A. Kopetz 2004 as Stenothemus favrei Pic cf. MAHĀRĀSTHRA, Pānchgani, Muséum Paris, 1938, J. Berlioz, 1 J 1 ♀. KARNĀTAKA, Bangalore, Silvepoora, 1899, G. Tabourel lgt., 1 J (all MNHN).

Comments. Stenothemus favrei ( Pic, 1907) was revised by WITTMER (1974) on the basis of only one female. It is very similar to S. andrewesi , from which it differs in entirely honeyyellow elytra, which are rusty to sienna-coloured and have a narrow yellow border in S. andrewesi , in narrower and not concave parameres, and in the shape of the last abdominal sternite in female. The sternite has a median longitudinal keel, dividing two median longitudinal impressions, and two lachrymiform bulges ( Fig. 54 ); the keel and inner sides of the bulges are densely pubescent. Aedeagus as in Fig. 53 .

Figures

Figs. 53-58. 53-54 – Stenothemus favrei (Pic, 1907). 53 – aedeagus, ventral view; 54 – last abdominal sternite of female. 55 – S. andrewesi (Bourgeois, 1907), last abdominal sternite of female. 56-57 – S. harmandi (Bourgeois, 1902). 56 – paramere, lateral view and its variability; 57 – pronotum. 58 – S. orbiculatus sp. nov., pronotum. Scales a – Figs. 53-55, 57-58; b – Fig. 56.