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Issue: Vol. 5528 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.16
Page range: 211-232
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 98

Taxonomic notes on Prothemus Champion (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with descriptions of two new species from China and Vietnam

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Im Semmichbache 14; OT Eischleben; D-99334 Amt Wachsenburg; Germany
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution; Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Coleoptera solider beetles Prothemus synonym reinstated status new species

Abstract

Prothemus longiphysus Wittmer, 1995 is considered as a junior synonym of P. sanguinosus (Farimaire, 1900). Meanwhile, P. angustioripennis (Pic, 1927), originally described in Cantharis, is removed from the synonym of P. sanguinosus and reinstated as a valid species. Besides, two new species are discovered and described under the names of P. biprominens sp. nov. and P. venustiformis sp. nov. In addition, the macrophotographs of aedeagi and female internal genitalia are firstly provided for the following species: P. sanguinosus, P. purpureipennis (Gorham, 1889), P. chinensis Wittmer, 1987, P. kiukianganus (Gorham, 1889), P. limbolarius (Fairmaire, 1900) and P. monochrous (Fairmaire, 1900). A key to the Prothemus species from Nanling National Natural Reserve, China is provided.

 

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