Sasajiscymnus hareja ( Weise, 1879 )

TONG, JUNBO, CHEN, XIAOSHENG, ZHANG, XIAONING, HUO, LIZHI, WU, GANG, PENG, ZHENGQIANG & WANG, XINGMIN, 2022, A review of the genus Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004 from China (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 5207 (1), pp. 1-104 : 65

Sasajiscymnus hareja ( Weise, 1879)

( Fig. 69 )

Chinese name: RṄḧ瓢•

Scymnus hareja Weise, 1879: 150 (type locality: Hagi, Japan).— Lewis 1896: 37; Sicard 1907: 211; Ohta 1929: 11; Korschefsky 1931: 127.

Scymnus (Pullus) hareja: Kurisaki 1923: 14 .

Scymnus (Scymnus) hareja: Mader 1955: 940 .— Miyatake 1958: 251; Kamiya 1961: 295; Nakane 1963: 208.

Pseudoscymnus hareja: Chapin 1962: 51 .— Kamiya 1965b: 76; 1966: 85; Sasaji 1970: 208; 1971: 99; Yang 1971: 86; Park & Yoon 1994: 65; Yu 1995 a: 129; Kuzuetsov 1997: 92; Pang et al. 2004: 87; Kovář 2007: 582.

Sasajiscymnus hareja: Yu 2011: 116 — Iqbal et al. 2020: 384.

Material examined. None.

Distribution. China (Taiwan); Russia; Japan; South Korea.

Remarks. The descriptions of male genitalia of this species vary in different works ( Miyatake, 1958; Sasaji, 1971; Park & Yoon, 1994; Kuzuetsov, 1997; Ren et al., 2009) hence it is possible that cryptic species within this species exist.

Ren et al. (2009) presented photos of S. hareja with remarkable emargination and distinct membranous appendage at the apex of penis, which differ from all the other descriptions. Based on the examination of that specimen and the revised diagnostic characters, we consider it as a new species, S. variabilis sp. nov., which is described in this study.

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FIGURE 69. Distribution of the Sasajiscymnus hareja species group: ● S. sagittalis Tong & Wang sp. nov.; ■ S. longus Tong & Wang sp. nov.; ◆ S. hareja (Weise, 1879); ▲ S. fulvihumerus (Yang & Wu, 1972); ★ S. latus Tong & Wang sp. nov.