Opatrum (Opatrum) subaratum Faldermann, 1835
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Opatrum (Opatrum) subaratum Faldermann, 1835 |
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Opatrum (Opatrum) subaratum Faldermann, 1835 Fig. 2: 1-9 View Figure 2
Redescription.
Male. Body nearly glabrous. Pronotal borders with 8-10 setose tubercles.
Head bent at acute angle to pronotum. Anterior border of labrum slightly emarginated in middle. Vertex with a central apophysis, in front of the apophysis with a pair of pits, behind the apophysis with a transverse, shallow groove. Oculus oval.
Pronotum: transverse, widest near middle, with the anterior part distinctly narrowed and the posterior part slightly narrowed; anterior border broadly emarginated and the emargination straight in middle; lateral borders broadly protuberant, flattened and stretched laterally ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 : 4-5); posterior border bisinuate ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 : 4); a longitudinal groove extended along dorsomeson from middle to posterior border; anterior angles obtuse, posterior angles acute; disc convex, glabrous, with short and narrow furrows.
Mesonotum slightly convex in middle of posterior part, posterior border protuberant. Posterior border of metanotum straight.
Elytral sheath striped and sparsely setose. Metathoracic wing sheath completely shrouded by elytral sheath ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 : 1-3).
Abdominal segments III-IX curved ventrally. The width of abdominal segments I-VII gradually narrowed posteriorly. Posterior border of abdominal sternite VIII slightly emarginated in middle, each side of the emargination with a long seta. Posterior borders of abdominal tergite IX straight; urogomphi diverging from each other, BUL shorter than UL ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 : 6-7). Abdominal tergites I-VII each with a concaveness between its lateral process and lateral border in middle, lateral processes each with 2 equally large and several minute setose tubercles along outer border, of which no minute setose tubercle presents in front of large setose tubercles I, 1-2 minute setose tubercles between large setose tubercles I and II and behind II, respectively ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 : 8-9). Lateral processes with anterior and posterior borders slightly sclerotized, outer borders of lateral processes of abdominal tergites I-VI slightly protuberant. Spiracles of abdominal tergites I-VI oval.
Gonotheca without apophysis.
Female. Unknown.
Measurements.
BL: 6.7 mm; PL: 2.2 mm; PW: 3.5 mm; MSL: 0.5 mm; MTL: 0.6 mm; UL: 0.7 mm; BUL: 0.6 mm.
Material examined.
2, adults collected information: 30 June 1998, Xuanhua County, Hebei, China; pupation date: 22-26 Septemper 2000.
Remarks.
This species was included in the key of tenebrionid pupae by Yu et al. (1999), but only mentioned with some characters for identification. Here its morphological characters are described in detail and provided with the photos for the first time.
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