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.