Lycocerus centrochinensis ( Svihla , 2004)

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1176.107858

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scientific name

Lycocerus centrochinensis ( Svihla , 2004)
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Lycocerus centrochinensis ( Svihla, 2004)

Figs 3D-F View Figure 3 , 12B View Figure 12 , 16B View Figure 16

Athemus (s.str.) centrochinensis Švihla, 2004: 182, figs 83-85, 202.

Lycocerus centrochinensis : Kazantsev and Brancucci 2007: 250.

Type material examined.

Holotype: 1♂ (NMPC), China, Shaanxi, Quing Ling Shan mts, m rd. Baoji-Taibai, 35 km S Baoji, 21-23.VI.1998, lgt. O. Šafránek & M. Trýzna.

Non-type material examined.

China: 2♂1♀ (MHBU), Sichuan, Wolong, 6-7.VIII.2004, leg. X. J. Yang & H. R. Hua; 1♂1♀ (MHBU), Gansu, Wenxian, Huangtuling, 2350 m, 8.VII.2003, leg. Y. B. Ba & Y. Yu; 1♂ (MHBU), Hubei, Dalaoling Nature Reserve, 1200 m, 9.VII.2011, leg. X. L. Liang; 1♀ (MHBU), same locality as the preceding, 11.VII.2011, leg. X. Liao; 1♂ (MHBU), Hubei, Shennongjia, Muyuzhen, 1200 m, 12.VII.2004, leg. S. Q. Xu; 1♀ (MHBU), same data as the preceding, leg. F. L. Zou; 1♀ (MHBU), Hubei, Shennongjia, Wenshui Forestry, 1700-2000 m, 16.VII.2003, leg. C. Gui; 1♂2♀ (MHBU), Shaanxi, Fengxian, Jialing, Jiangyuan, 13.VII.2012, leg. G. D. Ren; 1♂4♀ (MHBU), Shaanxi, Ningshaan, Huoditang, 1505 m, 33.434126°N, 108.448091°E (DD), 15.VIII.2013, leg. X. C. Zhu & Y. Tian.

Descriptive notes.

Male. Aedeagus: basal piece slightly longer than dorsal plate of each paramere (Fig. 3D-F View Figure 3 ); ventral process of each paramere thin and straight, approaching to each other in ventral view (Fig. 3D View Figure 3 ) and inclining ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 3F View Figure 3 ); dorsal plates of parameres slightly longer than ventral processes (Fig. 3D, F View Figure 3 ), with inner margins abruptly diverging near middle, apical margins slightly arcuate and descending outwards in dorsal view (Fig. 3E View Figure 3 ); laterophyse feebly longer than ventral process, with apices acute and directing dorso-outwards (Fig. 3D, F View Figure 3 ).

Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 12B View Figure 12 ): spermatheca nearly as long as diverticulum; accessory gland ~ 3.0 × longer than spermatheca.

Abdominal sternite VIII (Fig. 16B View Figure 16 ): rounded emargination in middle and triangular emarginations on both sides of posterior margin, lateral emarginations obviously deeper than and nearly as wide as the middle one, the portions between lateral and middle emarginations moderately wide and right-angled at apices, obviously extending over apices of latero-apical angles, which are narrowly triangular.

Distribution.

China (Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Gansu).

Remarks.

Li et al. (2015) provided an illustration of female internal genitalia for L. centrochinensis , which is of an unknown species. Additionally, the distribution range of this species is expanded, with geographic records added from Sichuan and Gansu provinces.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cantharidae

Genus

Lycocerus