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1EBF69265D8D5C34ABC4035A7621F49F.text	1EBF69265D8D5C34ABC4035A7621F49F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Morphostenophanes ailaoshanensis Xiong & Zhou 2026	<div><p>Morphostenophanes ailaoshanensis Xiong &amp; Zhou sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2, 3</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>哀牢山窄亮轴甲.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype: China: • ♂, ‘ China: Yunnan, Chuxiong Yi Pref., Ailashan N. R., Shuangbai County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.2874&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.3425" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.2874/lat 24.3425)">Heizhushan</a> (24.3425°N, 101.2874°E), alt. 2748 m., 2025. iii. 6, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. 哀牢山保护区黑竹山瞭望台熊紫春采’ (XTBG) . Paratypes: China: • 1 ♀, same data as for holotype (XTBG), • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, ditto (SNUC), • 1 ♀, ‘ China: Yunnan, Yuxi City, Xinping County, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.3711&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.167698" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.3711/lat 24.167698)">Mount Daxueguoshan</a>, 24.167697°N, 101.371103°E, alt. 2840 m, 2026. iv. 21, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. 云南玉溪市新平县大雪锅山熊紫春采’ (XTBG) .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>A small species. Dorsum and venter dark metallic green; elytra with a strong cupreous lustre and distinct ring-like depressions bearing purplish-violet reflections. Antennomere III at least 1.1 times as long as IV. Elytra strongly convex in both sexes.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Holotype male. Habitus (Fig. 1 A, C) slender, length 15.7 mm, width 5.6 mm, strongly convex, noticeably constricted between pronotum and elytra. Body dark greenish, with metallic lustre, elytra cupreous with purplish-violet ring-like depressions; antennomeres 7–11 bearing brown pubescence.</p><p>Head (Fig. 2 A) transversely subquadrate, sparsely and coarsely punctate; clypeus transversely hexagonal, gently bent downwards in front, with anterior margin nearly straight, clypeal transverse impression short; frontoclypeal suture depressed, widely U-shaped; genae strongly raised, depressed before eyes, strongly and roundly produced anterolaterally; frons broad, with anterior part gradually sloping forwards; eyes transversely reniform, strongly convex laterally; inner ocular sulci finely depressed; tempora weakly convex, finely wrinkled. OI = 69.0. Antennae (Fig. 2 E) slender, exceeding basal third of elytra, with antennomeres weakly thickened to each apex; antennomere III 1.1 times as long as IV; relative lengths of antennomeres from base to apex: 1.00: 0.54: 1.43: 1.29: 1.40: 1.40: 1.40: 1.37: 1.29: 1.29: 1.51. Mentum subtrapezoidal, finely and sparsely punctate.</p><p>Pronotum (Fig. 2 F) quadrate, widest slightly before the middle; anterior margin nearly straight, with markedly clear marginal sulcus; PW / PL = 1.17; lateral margins curved, with lateral sulci thin, visible along anterior half in dorsal view; posterior margin feebly sinuate, with markedly clear marginal sulcus; anterior angles rounded, posterior angles obtusely rounded; disc convex in middle, shagreened, finely and sparsely punctate, with two distinct, rounded impressions laterally. Scutellum triangular, glossy.</p><p>Elytra fusiform, widest slightly behind middle, strongly convex, highest near anterior 1 / 3, and bearing five rows of ring-like depressions, which are elevated at each middle, and rows are interrupted in part; EL / EW = 1.79; surface sparsely, finely punctate.</p><p>Prosternum shagreened, finely and sparsely punctate; prosternal process declivous, pointed at apex; hypomeron weakly rugulose, shagreened. Metaventrite glossy, metaventral anterior process weakly wrinkled. Abdomen depressed, surface somewhat rough, densely and finely punctate, with ventrites III and IV sulcate at sides; ventrite V rimmed, rim interrupted in middle.</p><p>Legs slender. Protibiae (Fig. 2 B) curved at apical 2 / 5, pubescent in apical half of inner margin; mesotibiae (Fig. 2 C) weakly curved at apical third, pubescent in apical half of inner margin; metatibiae (Fig. 2 D) weakly sinuous, pubescent in apical 3 / 5 of inner margin.</p><p>Aedeagus (Fig. 3 A) elongate, curved in lateral view; parameres slender, straightly producing in lateral view, 0.24 times as long as the total length, with apices flabellated. Sternite VIII (Fig. 3 D) with apical lobes rectangular in lateral view, with interior margins rounded, cornered at lowest point.</p><p>Female. Habitus (Fig. 1 B, D) stouter than the male, BL = 18.8– 16.5 mm. Antennomere III 1.2 times as long as IV, PW / PL = 1.18–1.22; elytra more convex, EL / EW = 1.55–1.65, highest at middle; abdomen straight in lateral view. Ovipositor (Fig. 3 C) knife shaped, gradually narrowing apically, fused coxites shorter than baculus.</p><p>Variability.</p><p>The male paratypes with BL = 14.5–16.1 mm; OI = 57.5–59.0. Pronotum with PW / PL = 1.15. Elytra with the ratio of EL / EW = 1.85.</p><p>Comparative notes.</p><p>Such small-sized species of Morphostenophanes were previously only known from the jendeki- and metallicus - groups. The new species is clearly more similar to M. minor Zhou, 2020, which is currently assigned to the jendeki - group. It can be distinguished from the latter by the following characters: body primarily metallic green (metallic cupreous in M. minor); elytral ring-like depressions significantly deeper; antennomere III at least 1.1 times as long as IV (these two antennomeres are subequal in length in the latter); the apices of parameres without apical marginal carina; and the distinct shape of the apical lobes of sternite VIII.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>China: Yunnan.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The new species is named after its type locality, Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1EBF69265D8D5C34ABC4035A7621F49F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xiong, Zi-Chun;Ye, Zheng-Quan;Lu, Zhi-Yun;Zhou, De-Yao	Xiong, Zi-Chun, Ye, Zheng-Quan, Lu, Zhi-Yun, Zhou, De-Yao (2026): Insights into the Morphostenophanes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fauna of the Ailao Mountains: A new species, key, and distributional pattern of the sympatric species. ZooKeys 1282: 151-159, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1282.184301
E764C060041E55D9A27E7B9BBEDF6382.text	E764C060041E55D9A27E7B9BBEDF6382.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Morphostenophanes chongli subsp. chongli Zhou 2020	<div><p>Morphostenophanes chongli chongli Zhou, 2020</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>火神窄亮轴甲指名亚种.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ‘ China: Yunnan, Chuxiong Yi Pref., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=100.99113&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.488253" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 100.99113/lat 24.488253)">Ailashan N. R.</a>, 24.48825245°N, 100.99112351°E, alt. 2029 m, 2024. iv. 26, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. ’ (XTBG) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E764C060041E55D9A27E7B9BBEDF6382	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xiong, Zi-Chun;Ye, Zheng-Quan;Lu, Zhi-Yun;Zhou, De-Yao	Xiong, Zi-Chun, Ye, Zheng-Quan, Lu, Zhi-Yun, Zhou, De-Yao (2026): Insights into the Morphostenophanes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fauna of the Ailao Mountains: A new species, key, and distributional pattern of the sympatric species. ZooKeys 1282: 151-159, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1282.184301
5D1C1DCB2AD75D098DB870D2E7A8962C.text	5D1C1DCB2AD75D098DB870D2E7A8962C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Morphostenophanes sinicus Zhou 2020	<div><p>Morphostenophanes sinicus Zhou, 2020</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>中华窄亮轴甲.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 1 ♂, ‘ China: Yunnan, Chuxiong Yi Pref., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.032776&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.533342" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.032776/lat 24.533342)">Ailashan N. R.</a>, 24.53334243°N, 101.0327751°E alt. 2648 m, 2023. viii. 30, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. ’ (XTBG) , • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, ditto except ‘ 24.56011077°N, 101.00189987°E, alt. 2354 m, 2024. xi. 14. ’ (XTBG), • 14 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ditto except ‘ 24.85923711°N, 100.80533333°E, alt. 2480 m, 2025. iii. 30. ’ (XTBG) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5D1C1DCB2AD75D098DB870D2E7A8962C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xiong, Zi-Chun;Ye, Zheng-Quan;Lu, Zhi-Yun;Zhou, De-Yao	Xiong, Zi-Chun, Ye, Zheng-Quan, Lu, Zhi-Yun, Zhou, De-Yao (2026): Insights into the Morphostenophanes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fauna of the Ailao Mountains: A new species, key, and distributional pattern of the sympatric species. ZooKeys 1282: 151-159, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1282.184301
A09B08B638BE5419A67D90FC76D9DB3F.text	A09B08B638BE5419A67D90FC76D9DB3F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Morphostenophanes yunnanus Zhou 2020	<div><p>Morphostenophanes yunnanus Zhou, 2020</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>滇中窄亮轴甲.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• 6 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, ‘ China: Yunnan, Chuxiong Yi Pref., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.0019&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.56011" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.0019/lat 24.56011)">Ailashan N. R.</a>, 24.56011077°N, 101.00189987°E, alt. 2354 m, 2024. xi. 14, Zi-Chun Xiong leg. ’ (XTBG) , • 11 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, ditto except ‘ 24.85923711°N, 100.80533333°E, alt. 2480 m, 2025. iii. 30 ’ (XTBG) .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A09B08B638BE5419A67D90FC76D9DB3F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Xiong, Zi-Chun;Ye, Zheng-Quan;Lu, Zhi-Yun;Zhou, De-Yao	Xiong, Zi-Chun, Ye, Zheng-Quan, Lu, Zhi-Yun, Zhou, De-Yao (2026): Insights into the Morphostenophanes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fauna of the Ailao Mountains: A new species, key, and distributional pattern of the sympatric species. ZooKeys 1282: 151-159, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1282.184301
