Pectocera tonkinensis Fleutiaux 1918
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: Jiang, Shi-Hong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Pectocera
Pectocera tonkinensis

description: <i>Pectocera tonkinensis</i> Fleutiaux, 1918 (Figures 3 (i), 10(13)) <i>Pectocera tonkinensis</i> Fleutiaux, 1918: 202. Syntypes in MNHN. Schenkling, 1925: 70; Fleutiaux, 1927: 118; Liu, 1932: 224; Wu, 1936: 440; Fleutiaux, 1947: 311; Jiang, 1993: 26; Jiang, 1993: 142; Kishii et Jiang, 1994: 96; Jiang et Wang, 1999: 69; Hua, 2002: 87; Cate et al, 2007: 95; Chen, Li et He, 2010: 105. <i>Pectocera cantori</i>: Fleutiaux, 1903: 573; Fleutiaux, 1918: 201; Fleutiaux, 1947: 311 (nec; Hope, 1842). <i>Material examined (SZPT)</i> 1&amp;male;, Zhejiang Prov., Qingliangfeng, Elanggu, 2017.V.13., leg. Le Sang, No. 20180276; 12&amp;male;&amp;male;, Guangdong Prov., Nanling, 2011.VII–VIII, leg. Bei-kun Chen, Nos. 20180282, 20180283, 20180284, 20180285, 20180286, 20180287, 20180288, 20180289, 20180290, 20180291, 20180293, 20180292; 3&amp;male;&amp;male;, Xizang, Motuo, Beiqian to Gelin (N29.24434°, E95.19070°, 1235 m), 2017.VIII.11, Nos. 20180279, 20180281, 20180280. <i>Diagnosis</i> Following Fleutiaux (1918): entirely blackish brown, not very shiny, elytra with whitish pubescense forming denser macula; antenna extending beyond half of body in male; pronotum as long as wide, barely narrowed in front, slightly sinuated laterally, strongly furrowed meddianly; hind angles acute and divergent posteriorly; scutellum round; elytra wider than pronotum, fairly convex interstriae. Similar to <i>cantori</i>, but differs it from mainly by the shape of pronotum and surface of elytra. <i>Distribution</i> China (Chongqing, Guangdong, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang) (Figure 10 (13)); Laos, Vietnam.
description: Published as part of <i>Liu, Zhen &amp; Jiang, Shi-Hong, 2021, The genus Pectocera Hope, 1842 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Oxynopterinae) in China, with description of two new species and one new record, pp. 247-270 in Journal of Natural History 55 (3 - 4)</i> on page 263, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1900443, http://zenodo.org/record/5472868
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