Lathrobium lingae Peng, Li & Zhao, 2012

Peng, Zhong, Li, Li-Zhen & Zhao, Mei-Jun, 2014, Seventeen new species and additional records of Lathrobium (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from mainland China, Zootaxa 3780 (1), pp. 1-35 : 33

Lathrobium lingae Peng, Li & Zhao, 2012

( Figs 24 A–C)

Material studied (13 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀). China: Zhejiang: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°27'E, alt. 1,050–1,200 m 15.v.2013, Li, Lv, Xie & Zhen leg. ( SNUC); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,150–1,500 m, 17.v.2013, Li, Lv, Xie & Zhen leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,250–1,450 m, 14.v.2013, Chen & Pan leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,250–1,450 m, 14.v.2013, Hu, Lv & Xie leg. ( SNUC); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, alt. 1,100–1,480 m, 12.vi.2012, Hu & Yin leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, Anji County, Longwang Shan, alt. 1,300 m, 29.v.2009, Feng & Yin leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, Anji County, West Tianmu Shan N. R., alt. 1,000 m 2.v.2009, Xiao-Bing Song leg. ( SNUC); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ [3 teneral], Anji County, Tianmu Shan, alt. 1,500 m 15.viii.2010, Jia-Yao Hu leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, Anji County, Tianmu Shan, 30°20'59''N 119°25'31''E, alt. 1,460 m 22.viii.2013, Liang Tang leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,480 m 10.vi.2012, Zhu Jian-Qing leg. ( SNUC).

Comment. The original description is based on a single male ( Peng et al. 2012a). The previously unknown female sexual characters are as follows: posterior margin of female tergite VIII ( Fig. 24 A) weakly convex; female sternite VIII ( Fig. 24 B) longer than tergite VIII, apical margin broadly convex; female tergite IX ( Fig. 24 C) with short antero-median portion without median suture and with slender postero-lateral processes; female tergite X approximately 1.3 times as long as antero-median portion of tergite IX ( Fig. 24 C).

Figures

FIGURE 24. Lathrobium lingae (A – C) and L. longwangshanense (D – F). A, D — female tergite VIII; B, E — female sternite VIII; C, F — female tergites IX – X. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.