Lycocerus kiontochananus
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxia
name: Yang, Xingke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cantharidae
Lycocerus
Lycocerus kiontochananus

description: A key to Lycocerus kiontochananus and similar species
1. Aedeagus: parameres conjoint on dorsal side................................. L. nigrigenus Y. Yang & X. Yang, 2013
- Aedeagus: parameres separated on dorsal side............................................................... 2
2. Legs with pro- and meso-outer claws each with a tooth at base in both sexes....................................... 3
- Legs with pro- and meso-outer claws simple in both sexes..................................................... 4
3. Head behind eyes metallic dark blue and weakly shiny; antennae slightly flatted, without grooves in male; pronotum with lat-eral margins nearly parallel............................................................. L. metalliceps sp. nov.
- Head entirely black, not metallic; antennae filiform, antennomeres V–XI each with a short, narrow and smooth longitudinal groove at apical part of outer margin in male; pronotum with lateral margins distinctly diverging posteriorly.................................................................................................. L. hainanus sp. nov.
4. Abdomen yellow at the last segment in female............................................................... 5
- Abdomen entirely black or yellow in female................................................................ 6
5. Pronotum distinctly longer than wide in male; aedeagus: basal piece of each paramere with outer margin not extending to the bottom of the emargination between dorsal plate and ventral process in lateral view; abdominal sternite VIII of female with middle emargination distinctly shallower than lateral ones of posterior margin.............. L. kiontochananus (Pic, 1921)
- Pronotum nearly as long as wide in male; aedeagus: basal piece of each paramere with outer margin extending to the bottom of the emargination between dorsal plate and ventral process in lateral view; abdominal sternite VIII of female with middle emar-gination slightly shallower than lateral ones L. perroudi (Pic, 1937) stat. rev.
6. Pronotum distinctly darkened at anterior margin and or a black marking in center of disc............................. 7
- Pronotum entirely yellow or red.......................................................................... 8
7. Pronotum with a black marking in center of disc, legs with femora mostly brown................. L. hansi (Švihla, 2004)
- Pronotum without any black marking on disc, legs with femora entirely black......... L. atropygidialis (Pic, 1937) stat. nov.
8. Aedeagus: median lobe with a pair of longitudinal sclerites on dorso-basal side...... L. naokii (Okushima & Imasaka, 2000)
- Aedeagus: median lobe without longitudinal sclerites......................................................... 9
9. Aedeagus: dorsal plate of each paramere with inner angle distinctly bent ventrally, outer margin sinuate.................................................................................................... L. jendeki Švihla, 2005
- Aedeagus: dorsal plate of each paramere with inner angle not bent ventrally, outer margin nearly straight.............................................................................................. L. pubescens (Wittmer, 1983)
description: Published as part of Yang, Yuxia & Yang, Xingke, 2014, Notes on Lycocerus kiontochananus (Pic, 1921) and description of two new species of Lycocerus Gorham from China (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 523-534 in Zootaxa 3774 (6) on page 524, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.2, http://zenodo.org/record/228661