Penia sucinea Schimmel 2001
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Penia sucinea Schimmel, 2001
(Figure 21)
Penia sucinea Scimmel, 2001: 226 (original description; type locality: Vietnam, Lào Cai Province, Hong Lien Son); Kundrata et al., 2018: 55 (catalogue); Kundrata and Nemeth, 2019: (record from Lao Cai Province, Vietnam).
Type material. Holotype. Male, Vietnam, Lào Cai Province, Hong Lien Son, 22°18–23’ N, 103°49–54’ E, 1100– 2400 m, 17–24 I 1994, L. and R. Businsky leg. [BMNH].
Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the following features: eyes 0.4 x longer than interocular distance in dorsal view (Fig. 21A); antennae extending beyond pronotum posterior lateral apices by antennomere VI, surpassing elytral half by antennomere XI (Fig. 21B); antennomeres III longer than II; IV 2.6 x longer than III, 1.5x longer than II–III combined (Fig. 21C); apical maxillary palpomere 2.7 x longer than wide (Fig. 21D), longer than maximum length of eye; pronotum straightly narrowed and distinctly constricted anterior to hind angles; posterior edge of pronotum without sublateral incisions; hind angles of pronotum acute, strongly protruding posterolaterad; hypomeron with distinct mesial projection (Fig. 21E); anterior angle of hypomeron biangular, with mesial and outer angles rounded; hind angle of hypomeron narrowly triangular; scutellar shield 1.1 x longer than wide (Fig. 21F); mesosternal process between mesocoxae lower than mesocoxae, not visible in lateral view (Fig. 21G); posterior edge of mesosternal process 0.1 x wider than total width of mesosternum; elytron 5.0 x longer than wide, 4.3 x longer than pronotum length (Fig. 21B); abdominal ventrite V trapezoidal, round-sided, slightly concave apically (Fig. 21H); phallobase 0.9 x longer than wide; preapical expansions of parameres claw-like shaped (Fig. 21I); apex of parameres beyond preapical expansions blade-like shaped, 1.25 x width of parameres at expansions in ventral side.
Measurements. BL: 13.5, BW: 4.08, MAE: 1.72, MBE: 0.97, OI: 178, PL: 2.42, PML: 1.91, PW: 2.88, PAW: 1.76, PLI: 84.1, PWI: 164, EL: 10.4, EW: 2.06, EI: 504, BI: 430.
Distribution. Vietnam: Lào Cai Province.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R, BMNH
- Event date
- 1994-01-17
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-01-17/24
- Scientific name authorship
- Schimmel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Elateridae
- Genus
- Penia
- Species
- sucinea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Penia sucinea Schimmel, 2001 sec. Arimoto, 2023
References
- Schimmel, R. (2001) Neue und wenig bekannte Diminae-Arten aus China, Indien, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal und Vietnam (Insecta, Coleoptera: Elateridae). Pollichia-Buch, 88, 205 - 231.
- Kundrata, R., Musalkova, M. & Kubaczkova, M. (2018) Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Dimini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae). Zootaxa, 4412 (1), 1 - 75. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4412.1
- Kundrata, R. & Nemeth, T. (2019) Description of Penia mantillerii sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dimini), with a key to Penia species from Vietnam and nearby areas. Zootaxa, 4612 (2), 275 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4612.2.10