Lathrobium barbiventre ASSING 2013

Assing, V. & S, Longwang, 2013, New species and records of Lathrobium from China and Nepal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1643-1655 : 1646

Lathrobium barbiventre ASSING 2013

( Figs 9-10 )

Material examined China: 1 [teneral], Fujian, Wuyi Shan, 8 km road to Masu , 27.72°N, 117.72°E, 1000 m, rhododendron dominant forest, 6.VI.2001, leg. Cooter & Hlaváþ (cRou) ; 1, Fujian, Wuyi Shan, Qiliqiao-Guadun road, 27.7°N, 117.64°E, 1150 m, mixed forest litter, 1.VI.2001, leg. Cooter & Hlaváþ (cAss) .

Comment: The original description is based on a unique male. The above specimens were collected near the type locality. The female tergites IX and X are distinctly asymmetric, a condition observed also in L. depravatum ASSING 2013 from the same mountain range. The previously unknown female secondary sexual characters are illustrated in Figs 9-10 .

Figures

Figs 9-18: Lathrobium barbiventre (9-10), L. rougemonti (11), L. mancum (12-13), and L. bicuspidatum (14-18): (9, 12) female sternite VIII; (10, 11, 13) female tergites IX-X; (14) forebody; (15) male sternite VII; (16) male sternite VIII; (17-18) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view. Scale bars: 14: 1.0 mm; 9-13, 15-18: 0.5 mm.