Stenothemus harmandi ( Bourgeois, 1902 )

Švihla, Vladimír, 2005, New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia with notes on other species II, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45, pp. 71-110 : 97

Stenothemus harmandi ( Bourgeois, 1902)

( Figs. 56, 57 , 59 )

Themus harmandi Bourgeois, 1902: 427 .

Stenothemus harmandi: BOURGEOIS (1907b) : 292.

Stenothemus harmandi: WITTMER (1974) : 51.

Material examined. INDIA: SIKKIM, Gantok env., Fambong-lho forest , 2000-2500 m, 8.- 15.vii.1997, J. Schneider lgt., 1 J 3 ♀♀ ( NMPC) . NEPAL: HELAMBU, Sano, Gopte above Kutumsang , 27°42′N 85°29′ E, 2900-4000 m a.s.l., 2.-3.ix.1997, Fabrizi & Ahrens lgt., 1 J ( NMPC) ; Thudam , 27°45′N 87°32′ E, 3500 m a.s.l., 28.vi.1972, Malaise trap, Kuyshu Univ. Col., 1 J ; Basantapur , 27°07′N 87°24′ E, 2300 m a.s.l., 26.vi.1972, H. Makihara, Kyushu Univ. Col., 1 J (all NHMB) .

Comments. Apart from specimens from Darjeeling, WITTMER (1974) also cited a large material from Assam and suggested that these specimens could belong to another subspecies. I have examined a part of the cited material, deposited in NHMB, and found that it consists of three undescribed species, which are formally described and keyed below. Together with S. harmandi they form a species group characterized by having the parameres and branches of the dorsal part of the aedeagus strongly curved ventrad, arcuate in lateral view and more or less thickened terminally. Laterophyses of all these species are very similar as illustrated by WITTMER (1974).

Figures

Figs. 53-58. 53-54 – Stenothemus favrei (Pic, 1907). 53 – aedeagus, ventral view; 54 – last abdominal sternite of female. 55 – S. andrewesi (Bourgeois, 1907), last abdominal sternite of female. 56-57 – S. harmandi (Bourgeois, 1902). 56 – paramere, lateral view and its variability; 57 – pronotum. 58 – S. orbiculatus sp. nov., pronotum. Scales a – Figs. 53-55, 57-58; b – Fig. 56.

Figs. 59-63. 59-62 – dorsal part of aedeagus. 59 – Stenothemus harmandi (Bourgeois, 1902); 60 – S. subnitidus sp. nov.; 61 – S. holosericus sp. nov.; 62 – S. orbiculatus sp. nov. 63 – S. subnitidus sp. nov., paramere, lateral view.