Prismognathus sukkitorum Nagai, 2005

Huang, Hao & Chen, Chang-Chin, 2012, A review of the genera Prismognathus Motschulsky and Cladophyllus Houlbert (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from China, with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 3255, pp. 1-36 : 15

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.280626

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6179490

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Prismognathus sukkitorum Nagai, 2005
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Prismognathus sukkitorum Nagai, 2005 View in CoL

( Figs. 67 View FIGURES 57 – 72 , 97 View FIGURES 95 – 110 , 129 View FIGURES 111 – 131 , 155 View FIGURES 150 – 167 , 191 View FIGURES 168 – 199 , 215 View FIGURES 212 – 223 , 235 View FIGURE 235 )

Prismognathus sukkitorum Nagai, 2005: 37 View in CoL [type locality: Chudo Razi, northeastern Kachin, northern Myanmar], Figs. 21–23 View FIGURES 21 – 34 , males and female; Fujita 2010: 168, plate 101, partim [Figs. 505 (1–5), males from northern Myanmar].

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan: 1 3 ( IEAS), Baoshan City, Tengchong County, Gaoligongshan Nature Reserve, Da-hao-ping station, on the old road from Tengchong to Baoshan, 17.IX.1991, Z.-Y. Liu, T.-Q. Wang & H.-S. Yin leg.; 1 Ƥ ( IEAS), same data; 1 3 ( CLYB), Nujiang Autonomous Prefecture, Gongshan County, VIII.2011, Y.- B. L i leg..

Identification. This species was originally described from northeastern Myanmar and compared with P. kanghianus . It differs from P. kanghianus in males “by having the body black, almost without luster, and the angulated frontal corners of pronotum” ( Nagai 2005). Fujita (2010) illustrated some reddish brown specimens alongside the black specimens from the same area; therefore the black color of the body is not a constant character. The male specimen from western Yunnan examined by us matches the original description of P. s u kk i to r um except for the redder color of the body. On the underside of the male specimen, each of the abdominal ventrites bears a transversal band of yellow setae near the posterior margin; this character is not found in all other species. The female was illustrated in the original description and very briefly described. The following peculiar characters have been noticed by us: 1) anterior margin of the pronotum markedly wider than head, with anterolateral corners more or less produced; 2) lateral angels of the pronotum a little protruding. The female from western Yunnan examined by us matches the above-mentioned characters. However, the female illustrated by Fujita (2010: plate 101, Fig. 505-6) does not match these characters and probably does not belong to P. sukkitorum .

Taxonomic notes. P. sukkitorum is sympatric with P. kanghianus kittii in northeastern Myanmar.

Distribution. Western Yunnan (Tengchong); northeastern Myanmar.

IEAS

Institute of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lucanidae

Genus

Prismognathus

Loc

Prismognathus sukkitorum Nagai, 2005

Huang, Hao & Chen, Chang-Chin 2012
2012
Loc

Prismognathus sukkitorum

Fujita 2010: 168
Nagai 2005: 37
2005
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