Neolucanus brochieri Bomans & Miyashita 1997
Creators: name: Xin, Fei-Yi
name: Zhong, Xiao-Tian
name: Guo, Wen-Chi
name: Zhang, Yi-Feng
name: Qi, Zhi-Hao
name: Wu, Song-Qing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lucanidae
Neolucanus
Neolucanus brochieri

description: Neolucanus brochieri Bomans & Miyashita, 1997
Suggested Chinese common name: DZae圆OiNJƤ
Figs. 1F–H; 2E–F; 3M–P; 4I–L; 5M–P; 6D, H, L; 7D
Neolucanus brochieri Bomans & Miyashita, 1997: 2.
Type locality. Myanmar, Kachin State.
Type material examined. None.
Additional material examined. China: 2 males (CXTZ), Yunnan Province, Nujiang Prefecture, Gongshan County, Dulongjiang valley, 2011, local collector leg.; 1 male (CZHQ),, Yunnan Province, Nujiang Prefecture, Gongshan County, Dulongjiang valley, 19.VII.2023, 1800m, Feiyi Xin leg.; 15 males (CZHQ), Yunnan Province, Nujiang Prefecture, Lushui city, Pianma Township, VII.2015, 2500m, Xinxiong Deng leg.
Redescription of the male (n=18).
Body length: 29.4–48.1 mm (Fujita 2010; Toshiyuki 2021; Yi 2023 and present paper)
Telodont. Habitus (Fig. 1F–H). Head and pronotum black, elytra black or aurantiaceous with black borders; obviously glossy; body with invisible pubescence in dorsal view, labium with dense setae all legs with sparse yellow setae on surface.
Head transverse. Anterior ridge raised behind mandible and widely concave on the middle. Canthus long and wide, completely surround the eye. Clypeolabrum (Fig. 3M) tiny and transverse, slightly visible in dorsal view, fused with frons. Mandible (Fig. 3M–N) smooth from base to teeth on inner margin; in lateral view, clearly up-curved and thinnest at basal 1/3, a dorsal tooth behind apex forming an approximately arc-shaped and weakly protrudes beyond upper margin; in dorsal view, slightly curved, thickness almost regular from base to inner teeth, with 2–3 continuous small teeth. Antennal club with 3 antennomeres; antennomeres 8–9 subquadrilateral; antennomere 10 semi-elliptic.
Pronotum (Fig. 3O) transverse, markedly longer and wider than head with slightly raised edges.Anterior margin bisinuate, posterior margin dimly bisinuate. Anterior angles blunt and directed forwards, lateral angles and posterior angles obtuse.
Elytra elongate, anterior margin of elytra clearly narrower than pronotum.
Legs. Protibia (Fig. 3P) with 4–6 conspicuous sharp and short protuberances along outer margin, apex bifurcate with branches moderately sharp at tip; inner margin with a unclear gap at base. Mesotibia and metatibia straight and outer margin with a terminal spine, without external spines.
Abdomen and aedeagus. Abdominal tergite VIII (Fig. 5M) subsemi-circular, lateral angles poorly defined. Abdominal ventrite VIII (Fig. 5N) with smooth basal margin. Ventral plate of abdominal segment IX (Fig. 5P) slender without membranous stripe, obviously constricted at base, then widens sharply and significantly, widens gradually to about apical 1/5. Aedeagus (Fig. 6D, H, L) with a significant and relatively slender pair of sclerotized dorsal plates; ventral plate at apical end of basal piece membranous. Paramere relatively narrow, with a obvious curvature at base, apex of paramere curved outward. Penis large, almost as long as paramere in ventral view. Flagellum long, apex of flagellum simple.
Variation. Mesodont. Mandible shorter and straighter in dorsal view, with a rounded tooth at base. Amphiodont and priodont (Fig. 2E–F). Mandible (Fig. 4I–J) slender, straight and only slightly longer than head with unclear consecutive small teeth behind apex, with almost no branch at apex in lateral view; clypeolabrum (Fig. 4I) clearly visible in dorsal view.
Differential diagnosis. See Table 1 and 2.
Distribution. China (Yunnan); Myanmar (Kachin) (Fujita 2010; Schenk 2012, 2014; Toshiyuki 2021; Yi 2023 and present paper).
description: Published as part of Xin, Fei-Yi, Zhong, Xiao-Tian, Guo, Wen-Chi, Zhang, Yi-Feng, Qi, Zhi-Hao & Wu, Song-Qing, 2025, A taxonomic note on Chinese species of the Neolucanus fuscus group with the description of a new species (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae), pp. 344-360 in Zootaxa 5570 (2) on pages 356-357, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/14735135