Fissocantharis formosana Pic 1910
Creators: name: Yang, Yu-Xia
name: Okushima, Yûichi
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Fissocantharis
Fissocantharis formosana

description: Fissocantharis formosana (Pic, 1910)
Figs. 1–4
Rhagonycha formosana Pic, 1910: 271.
Podabrus curvatipes Pic, 1922: 4; Wittmer, 1986: 131 (syn.).
Rhagonycha obscurioripes Pic, 1926: 235; Wittmer, 1982: 129 (syn.).
Micropodabrus formosanus: Wittmer, 1982: 129, Abb. 11 – 13.
Micropodabrus simplicicornis Wittmer, 1993: 209, Abb. 9, 12. syn. nov.
Fissocantharis formosana: Yang, Brancucci & Yang, 2009: 49.
Type material examined. Type 3 of Rhagonycha formosana Pic, “ Formosa [Taiwan], IV” (MNHN); Type 3 of Podabrus curvatipes Pic, “ Formosa [Taiwan], IV” (MNHN); Holotype ♀ of Rhagonycha obscurioripes Pic, “ Formosa [Taiwan]” (MNHN); Holotype 3 of Micropodabrus simplicicornis Wittmer, “ Taiwan, Taoyuan Pref., Kao-i, alt. 600m, 12.IV.1981, leg. T. Shimomura ” (NHMB).
Other material examined. 13, S-Taiwan, near Liu Kuei, Mt. Wu Kon Shan, 3.VI.1989, leg. K. Baba; 23, S-Taiwan, Liu Kui, 2.IV.1986, leg. K. Baba; 23, 4♀♀, Taiwan, 25.–26.IV.1978, leg. S. Sato; 33, 5♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Lien-hua-chih, 7.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Lien-hua-chih, 7.IV.1991, leg. T. Kishimoto; 2♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Meichi, 10.IV.1991, leg. T. Kishimoto; 43, 3♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shih-tze-tow-chi, 22.IV.1994, leg. T. Shimizu & T. Kishimoto; 13, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shihtzetow, 16.III.1994, leg. C. Lou; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shihtzetow, 28.IV.1994, leg. C. Lou; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shihtzetow, 24.III.1995, leg. C. Lou; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Renai Hsiang, Guandaoshan, 10.IV.2004, leg. T. Tsuru; 13, 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Wushe, 29.IV.1983, leg. M. Hasegawa; 13, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Nanshanchi, 19.III.1983, leg. Y. Kusakabe; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Nanshanchi, 26.IV.1984, leg. Y. Kusakabe; 53, 9♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Nanshanchi, 25.IV.1994, leg. T. Kishimoto; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Nanshanchi, 31.III.1996, leg. T. Kishimoto; 43, 3♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Nanshanchi, 8.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shizitou, 9.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 13, 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Shizitou, 12.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 13, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Hwei-sun, 30.III.1990, leg. Chun-Lin Li; 1♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Meigu-Holuan, 30.III.1998, leg. F. Hayashi; 4♀♀, Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Lushan Spa, 2.V.1983, leg. M. Hasegawa; 13, 1♀, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Tengchih, 3.IV.2000, leg. T. Mizusawa; 1♀, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Tengchih, 28.III.2000, leg. T. Mizusawa; 13, 2♀♀, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Tengchih, 27.III.2000, leg. T. Mizusawa; 1♀, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taoyuan, Tengchih, 1.IV.2001, leg. K. Okajima; 2♀♀, Taiwan, Taipei Hsien, Wulai, 7.III.1994, leg. T. Kishimoto & T. Shimizu; 13, Taiwan, Taipei Hsien, Wulai, 21.IV.1972, leg. M. Sakai; 2♀♀, Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, 11.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 13, Taiwan, Taichung, Kukuan, 18.IV.1996, leg. G. Ito; 13, Taiwan, Taoyuan Hsien, Baling, 5.IV.1991, leg. Y. Okushima; 13, 1♀, Taiwan, Taoyuan Hsien, Chikou, 350m, 25.IV.1996, leg. L.J. Wang; 13, Taiwan, Ilan Hsien, Yuanshan, 23.–25.III.2000, leg. T. Mizusawa; 13, 2♀♀, Taiwan, Ilan Hsien, Yuanshan, 23.III.2000, leg. H. Yoshitake (above all in KURA).
Distribution. Taiwan.
Remarks. The examination of type specimens shows that Micropodabrus simplicicornis Wittmer, 1993 is a junior synonym of Fissocantharis formosana (Pic, 1910), since there is no difference between them in the characters of appearance and aedeagus. Besides, a large series of additional specimens available in this study appear that this species has some variation in the body coloration, e.g. head orange, sometimes darkened, antennae black, sometimes several basal antennomeres orange, legs entirely orange, sometimes tibiae and tarsi black or entirely black, but the aedeagus is conservative and dependable.
description: Published as part of Yang, Yu-Xia, Okushima, Yûichi & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2012, Synonym, new species and checklist of the genus Fissocantharis Pic from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 46-53 in Zootaxa 3262 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3262.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/213031