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Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer 1997

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, School of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China. & xyfxr 1005 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 0594 - 9724
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, School of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China. & Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China. & liuhy @ hbu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1383 - 5560
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. & yangxk @ ioz. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3676 - 6828
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, School of Life Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China. & Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China. & yxyang @ hbu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3118 - 6659 * Corresponding authors

Description

Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer, 1997: 328, figs 206, 207.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ (NMPC), [p] “ China Sichuan 23. ‒27.VI. / Jiulonggou nr. Dayi / 70 km W Chengdu / M. Trýzna lgt. 1993”, [p] “ HOLOTYPUS ”, [h] “Rhag. / furcatiformis / Wittm. / det. W. Wittmer ”.

Other material examined. CHINA, Sichuan: 1♂, 1♀ (MHBU), 70 km, West Chengdu, Qingcheng Hou Shan mts., 30°44' N, 103°08' E, 1500 m, 1‒06.VI.2005, leg. S. Murzin.

Descriptive notes. Male (Fig. 1B).Aedeagus moderately swollen laterally near middle (Fig. 2D, E), moderately swollen ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 2F); ventral processes of parameres abruptly thinned apically near bases, with apices narrowly rounded, approaching to each other in ventral view (Fig. 2D), and nearly straight in lateral view (Fig. 2F); conjoint dorsal plate of parameres feebly longer than ventral processes (Fig. 2D, F), with apical margin roundly and deeply emarginate in middle, lateral margins distinctly diverging apically, latero-apical angles rounded in dorsal view (Fig. 2E), and feebly cinclined ventrally in lateral view (Fig. 2F); the emargination between conjoint dorsal plate and ventral process about 1/3 length of aedeagus (Fig. 2F).

Female. Internal organ of reproductive system (Fig. 3B): vagina stout and abruptly thinned at ventroapical portion into a moderately long tube, where diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising separately; diverticulum long and spiral, evenly thin along the whole length; spermathecal duct short, about 1/6 length of apical tube of vagina; spermatheca provided with a spiral tube, evenly thin along the whole length and nearly as long as diverticulum; accessory gland long, about twice longer than spermatheca.

Abdominal sternite VIII (Fig. 4B) strongly narrowed posteriorly, widely triangular at latero-apical angles, and trapezodinally protuberant in middle of posterior margin.

Destribution (Fig. 35). China (Sichuan).

Notes

Published as part of Xiao, Yun-Feng, Liu, Hao-Yu, Yang, Xing-Ke & Yang, Yu-Xia, 2024, Taxonomic review of the Rhagonycha flava species group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of fourteen new species from China, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5534 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5534.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023514

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHBU , NMPC
Event date
2005-06-01
Verbatim event date
2005-06-01/06
Scientific name authorship
Wittmer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cantharidae
Genus
Rhagonycha
Species
furcatiformis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rhagonycha furcatiformis Wittmer, 1997 sec. Xiao, Liu, Yang & Yang, 2024

References

  • Wittmer, W. (1997) Neue Cantharidae (Col.) aus dem indo-malaiischen und palaearktischen Faunengebiet mit Mutationen. 2. Beitrag. Entomologica Basiliensia, 20, 223 - 366.