Fissocantharis flavipennis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012

Zhang, Lulu, Yang, Yuxia & Okushima, Yûichi, 2016, A contribution to the knowledge of the genera Fissocantharis Pic, 1921 and Micropodabrus Pic, 1920 from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 243, pp. 1-37 : 7

Fissocantharis flavipennis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012

Figs 2C , 5C

Fissocantharis flavipennis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012: 48 , figs 5, 6, 9–11.

Material examined

TAIWAN: 1 ♀ (paratype), Nantou Hsien, Mt. Nengkaoshan, Yunhai, 22 Jun. 1989, leg. M. Satô ( KURA).

Supplementary description

ABDOMINAL STERNITE VIII Oŀ ŀEMALE ( Fig. 5 C ). Nearly straight at posterior margin.

INTERNAL ORGAN Oŀ REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM ( Fig. 2 C ). Vagina stout, abruptly thinned and extended into a slightly long duct at ventroapical portion; diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising from the end of the duct of vagina; diverticulum moderately long, spiral and moderately thinned apically; spermathecal duct slightly shorter than diverticulum and nearly as thick as basal portion of diverticulum; spermatheca composed of a spiral tube which is slightly longer than diverticulum, provided with a thin accessory gland which is slightly longer than the spiral tube of spermatheca; median oviduct situated in middle of vagina.

Remarks

In the present study, the abdominal sternite VIII and genitalia of female are photographed and described for the first time.

Distribution

Taiwan.

Figures

Fig. 2. Female genitalia, lateral view. A. Fissocantharis denominata (Wittmer, 1997). B. F. fenchihuensis (Wittmer, 1982). C. F. flavipennis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012. D. F. formosana (Pic, 1910). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.

Fig. 5. Abdominal sternite VIII of female, ventral view. A. Fissocantharis denominata (Wittmer, 1997). B. F. fenchihuensis (Wittmer, 1982). C. F. flavipennis Yang, Okushima & Yang, 2012. D. F. formosana (Pic, 1910). E. F. gressitti (Wittmer, 1954). F. F. kurosawai (Wittmer, 1982). G. F. laticornis Y. Yang, Okushima & X. Yang, 2012. H. F. lishanensis (Wittmer, 1982). Scale bars: 1.0 mm.