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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.