Themus (Telephorops) sauteri (Pic, 1912)

Yang, Yuxia, Xi, Huacong, Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu, 2019, Taxonomic review of the Themus (Telephorops) nepalensis species-group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), ZooKeys 884, pp. 81-106 : 81

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.884.32550

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scientific name

Themus (Telephorops) sauteri (Pic, 1912)
status

 

Themus (Telephorops) sauteri (Pic, 1912) Figs 8A View Figure 8 , 9I View Figure 9

Cantharis sauteri Pic, 1912: 46.

Themus sauteri : Wittmer 1954: 276.

Themus (Telephorops) sauteri : Wittmer 1983a: 197, figs 47 (aedeagus illustration), 50 (female abdominal sternite VIII illustration).

Material examined.

Taiwan: 1♂ (NHMB), Nanshanchi, 1978.VI.18, H. Akiyama; 1♂, 1♀ (NHMB), Formosa, T. Kano; 1♀ (NHMB), Wushe, 1975.VI.9, K. Akiyama; 1♂ (NHMB), Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, 1996.VII.12, leg. C. Lou; 1♂ (NHMB), same data, 1994.VI.20; 1♀ (NHMB), Nantou Hsien, Sungkang, 1995.VII.17, leg. C. Lou; 1♀ (NHMB), Nantou Hsien, Shintzetou, 1994.VII.14, leg. C. Lou; 1♂, 2♀(IZAS), Taichung Hsien, Kukuan,1996.VII.12, leg. C. Lou; 1♀ (IZAS), Mt. Nantou Hsien, Hohwangshan, 1997.VIII. 27, leg. C. Lou.

Supplementary description.

Female. Like male, but antennomeres VI–X without impressions along outer edges (while present with smooth narrow longitudinal or oblong impressions in male), terminal abdominal ventrite wide (while narrow and triangular in male) ( Fig. 9I View Figure 9 ) with posterior edge triangularly emarginate medially and largely and triangularly emarginate on both sides, lateral emargination about 3 times as deep as middle one, the protuberances between middle and lateral emarginations acute, exceeding the acute apices of apicolateral angles. Internal genitalia ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ): diverticulum hardly narrowed apically and rounded at apex, about twice as long as its maximal width; spermatheca expanded apically.

Distribution.

Taiwan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cantharidae

Genus

Themus