Rhagonycha flava (Pic, 1926)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5534.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F9023D04-FFFE-FFC7-FF69-E1613A3EE90F |
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Plazi |
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Rhagonycha flava |
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Rhagonycha flava species group
Diagnosis. Body slender and small to middle-sized ( Figs 1 View FIGURE , 6 View FIGURE , 10 View FIGURE , 13 ‒ 15 View FIGURE View FIGURE View FIGURE 15 , 19 View FIGURE 19 , 21 View FIGURE 21 , 25 View FIGURE 25 , 27 View FIGURE 27 , 31 View FIGURE 31 , 33 View FIGURE 33 ). Head usually yellowish orange or pale yellow, sometimes black at vertex (except uniformly black in Rh. (s.str.) nigricolor sp. nov., Fig. 15A, B View FIGURE 15 ); pronotum often yellowish orange or pale yellow, rarely with a black marking on disc (except uniformly black in Rh. (s.str.) nigricolor sp. nov.); elytra uniformly pale yellow even transparent, sometimes present with wide black longitudinal bands on disc in both sexes, or dimorphic and black in male while yellowish brown at humeri and progressively darkened apically in female. Antennae filiform and simple in both sexes, antennomeres II obviously shorter than III. Pronotum subquadrate, wider than or as wide as long, lateral margins nearly parallel or feebly diverging posteriorly, posterior angles never protruding. All inner and outer tarsal claws bifid in both sexes. Aedeagus ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 , 5 View FIGURE 5 , 9 View FIGURE 9 , 11 View FIGURE 11 , 16 View FIGURE 16 , 20 View FIGURE 20 , 22 View FIGURE 22 , 26 View FIGURE 26 , 28 View FIGURE 28 , 32 View FIGURE 32 , 34 View FIGURE 34 ) with dorsal plates of parameres conjoint and more or less emarginate in middle of apical margin; ventral processes of parameres variable in shapes; median lobe absent with laterophyses, internal sac always present with several tufts of setae. Female internal genitalia ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 7 View FIGURE 7 , 12A, B View FIGURE 12 , 17 View FIGURE 17 , 23 View FIGURE 23 , 29 View FIGURE 29 ) with a global vagina, which always abruptly thinned into an apical tube, where the diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising, diverticulum spiral and thin-tubed, spermatheca provided with one or two spiral tubes, accessory gland long and thin.
Distribution ( Figs 35–42 View FIGURE 35 View FIGURE 36 View FIGURE 37 View FIGURE 38 View FIGURE 39 View FIGURE 40 View FIGURE 41 View FIGURE 42 ). S. China, N. Vietnam, N. India.
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