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Fissocantharis Pic 1921

  • 1. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China. & Email: 2940331171 @ qq. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 2 D 7 E 44 B 4 - 1472 - 43 C 0 - A 669 - B 86433 EEA 6 DE
  • 2. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, Hebei Province, China. & yxyang @ hbu. edu. cn, & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: CA 819 BAF-F 411 - 4917 - 9205 - 4 F 1 C 36 AC 4 DC 9 & Co-corresponding authors:
  • 3. Kurashiki Museum of Natural History, Chûô 2 - 6 - 1, Kurashiki, Okayama, 710 - 0046 Japan. & musoku @ city. kurashiki. okayama. jp & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: BB 590861 - E 5 AE- 438 B-AC 0 E-A 8724 F 8 FAAB 5 & Co-corresponding authors:

Description

Genus Fissocantharis Pic, 1921

Fissocantharis Pic, 1921a: 27.

Cephalomalthinus Pic, 1921b: 5.

Fissopodabrus Pic, 1927: 2.

Kandyosilis Pic, 1929: 70.

Rhagonycha (Harmonycha) Wittmer, 1938: 302.

Javaesilis Pic, 1955: 7.

Stenopodabrus Nakane, 1992: 78.

Diagnosis

Body small to middle-sized, elongate. Eyes moderately or strongly protruding in male, weakly or moderately in female. Antennae filiform, often present with narrow longitudinal grooves or more or less deformed on middle antennomeres in male, while simple in female. Pronotum subquadrate, subparallelsided or slightly widened posteriorly, anterior margin narrower or as wide as head width across eyes. Legs with all tarsal claws bifid or having triangular basal appendicles in both sexes. Aedeagus: elongate, dorsal plates of parameres conjoint, laterophyses absent. Female genitalia: vagina stout, always abruptly thinned and extended into a slightly long duct at ventroapical portion; diverticulum and spermathecal duct arising from the end of the duct of vagina; diverticulum thin and spiral-tubed, spermatheca composed of one thin and spiral tube; median oviduct always situated in middle of vagina.

Notes

Published as part of Zhang, Lulu, Yang, Yuxia & Okushima, Yûichi, 2016, A contribution to the knowledge of the genera Fissocantharis Pic, 1921 and Micropodabrus Pic, 1920 from Taiwan (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), pp. 1-37 in European Journal of Taxonomy 243 on page 2, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.243, http://zenodo.org/record/3850482

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pic
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cantharidae
Genus
Fissocantharis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Fissocantharis Pic, 1921 sec. Zhang, Yang & Okushima, 2016

References

  • Pic M. 1921 a. Nouveautes diverses. Melanges Exotico-Entomologiques 33: 1 - 32.
  • Pic M. 1921 b. Contribution a l'etude des Lycides. L'Echange, Revue Linneenne 37 (404 - 406): 1 - 12.
  • Pic M. 1927. Coleopteres de l'Indochine. Melanges Exotico-Entomologiques 49: 1 - 36.
  • Pic M. 1929. Malacodermes exotiques (Suite). L'Echange, 65 [hors-texte] (437 - 438): 69 - 76.
  • Wittmer W. 1938. 3. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der indo-malayischen Malacodermata (Col.). Treubia 16 (3): 301 - 306.
  • Pic M. 1955. Coleopteres du globe (Suite). L'Echange, Revue Linneenne 71: 7 - 11.
  • Nakane T. 1992. Notes on some little-know beetles (Coleoptera) in Japan. 9. Kita-Kyushu no Konchu 39 (2): 73 - 79.