Stomis stefani Deuve, 2006

Sciaky, Riccardo, 2024, Review of the Chinese Stomis, with description of nine new taxa and a new key (Carabidae: Pterostichini), Zootaxa 5523 (1), pp. 1-34 : 31

Stomis stefani Deuve, 2006

Loc. typ.: Taiwan, Fenchihu, 1400 m.

Described upon a single female specimen and later collected again in two occasions ( Sasakawa & Toki 2014; Weng 2018); in the second case also the male characters have been described, showing that it is a species more allied to the Japanese species of this genus than to the Chinese ones, as it had already been hypothesized in the original description ( Deuve 2006). Here I give only the photo of the holotype ( Fig. 28 ), but the species is not dealt with in detail and is not even treated in the key, that contains only the species from continental China.

Figures

FIGURES 25–28. Historical types; habitus of: (25) S. deuvei HT (7.5 mm); (26) S. collucens HT (10.4 mm); (27) S. chinensis HT (8.1 mm); (28) S. stefani HT (10.8 mm).