Stenothemus fukienensis Wittmer 1974
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxia
name: Ge, Shujuan
name: Yang, Xingke
name: Liu, Haoyu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Stenothemus
Stenothemus fukienensis

description: Stenothemus fukienensis Wittmer, 1974
Figs 5A‒C, 7B, 8F
Stenothemus fukienensis Wittmer, 1974: 60, figs 20–21.
Material examined
Holotype
CHINA • ♂; [p] “ Kuatun (2300m) 27, 40n. Br.// 117. 40ö. L. J. Klapperich // 3. 4. 1938 (Fukien)”, [h] “ Stenothemus // fukienensis // Wittm.// det. W. Wittmer ”, [p] “ HOLOTYPUS ”, [p] “Naturhistorisches// Museum Basel // Coll. W. Wittmer ”, [p] “ Cantharidae // CANTH00003399”; NHMB.
Other material
CHINA – Fujian • 1 ♂; Shaowu, Tachuland; 14 May 1945; collector unknown; NHMB. – Zhejiang • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Qingyuan, Baishanzu, Chameiyu; 1300 m a.s.l.; 19 Apr. 1994; H. Wu leg.; IZAS • 1 ♂; same locality as for preceding; 800 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr. 1994; W.G. Zhang leg.; IZAS • 1 ♂; Longquan, Fengyangshan; 1800 m a.s.l.; 18 May 2007; J.F. Gao and B.F. Zhou leg.; IZAS • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 1250 m a.s.l.; 10 May 2007; S.L. Liu leg.; IZAS.
Supplementary description
Male
AEDEAGUS (Fig. 5A‒C). Strongly swollen laterally in basal part, contracted in diameter apically; basal piece nearly as long as dorsal plate of each paramere, with a large, bifurcate conjoint middle nodule at base of ventral side; ventral processes of parameres nearly parallel to one another, distinctly thickened apically, bent dorsally in lateral view; dorsal plate slightly longer than ventral process, abruptly narrowed in middle and wide-triangularly protuberant at apical part, near to each other at basal part, apex acute and folded ventrally; apical parts of laterophyses depressed and separate from each other, apex acute and bent dorsally, reaching middle emargination between dorsal plates.
Female
ABDOMINAL STERNITE VIII (Fig. 8F). Moderately narrowed posteriorly, posterior margin deeply and triangularly emarginate in middle and feebly emarginate on both sides; behind notch with membrane, narrowly bilobed at apex and present with longitudinal sclerite at center.
INTERNAL ORGAN OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (Fig. 7B). Vagina stout, with median oviduct situated at ventroapical part, diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising from apex; diverticulum extremely long, about 0.33 times body length, evenly thinned apically, slender tube-shaped and spiral; spermathecal duct much shorter than diverticulum; spermatheca slender tube-shaped and spiral, obviously thinner than spermathecal duct and nearly as long as diverticulum, with basal part extended into short tube, where accessory gland opening. Accessory gland thin and nearly as long as spermatheca.
Remarks
This species was described only based on the male, and the female is here recorded for the first time.
Distribution
China (Zhejiang, Fujian).
description: Published as part of Yang, Yuxia, Ge, Shujuan, Yang, Xingke & Liu, Haoyu, 2021, Review of the species of Stenothemus from Southeast China (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 119-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 744 on pages 139-141, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.744.1307, http://zenodo.org/record/4690236