Parastasia oberthueri subsp. ishigakiana Nomura 1964
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Parastasia oberthueri ishigakiana Nomura, 1964
(Figs. 30–32, 36–37)
Parastasia oberthueri ishigakiana Nomura, 1964: 55 [description, figured]; Nomura & Kobayashi 1974: 6 [description of the male, parameres figured]; Kobayashi 1983: 15 [redescription, erroneously under sakishimana, figured]; Kuijten 1992: 128 [redescription]; Yu et al. 1998: 110 [redescription, figured, subspecific unassigned]; Fujioka 2001: 94 [catalogued]; Zorn 2006: 277 [catalogued]; Sakai & Fujioka 2007: 24 [redescription, figured]; Zorn & Bezděk 2016: 357 [catalogued].
Material examined (1♂, 1♀). 1♂, 1♀ (CCCC), CHINA: Taiwan, Pingtung, Shih-tzu, Li-lung-shan, 550m, larvae collected by Yi-Ting Chung on 2017. II.02, emerged on 2017. V.20.
Remarks. P. oberthueri ishigakiana can be distinguished from nominotypical subspecies by the pronotum color of female and aedeagal characters of male (Nomura & Kobayashi 1974). Kobayashi (1983) firstly recorded a male specimen from Taiwan, which was subsequently accepted by Fujioka (2001). However, the specimens of both sexes reported from Taiwan by Yu et al. (1998) were not assigned to a subspecies. As they stated, females from Taiwan possess a black pronotum, normally with four orange spots. Two orange apical spots present on pronotum of the examined female (Fig. 32). The aedeagus (Figs. 36, 37) of the examined male (Figs. 30, 31) is identical to the figures showed by Nomura & Kobayashi (1974). I agree to consider the population from Taiwan as belonging to the subspecies ishigakiana since both sexes had their characters fit descriptions and illustrations of Japanese specimens (Nomura 1964; Nomura & Kobayashi 1974; Sakai & Fujioka 2007).
Distribution. China: Taiwan; Japan.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CCCC
- Family
- Rutelidae
- Genus
- Parastasia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nomura
- Species
- ishigakiana
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parastasia oberthueri subsp. ishigakiana Nomura, 1964 sec. Zhao, 2019
References
- Nomura, S. (1964) Some new forms of the Scarabaeoidea from Loochoo Islands. The Entomological Review of Japan, 16 (2), 50 - 60.
- Nomura, S. & Kobayashi, H. (1974) Description of the male of the Oyotsubakogane (Parastasia oberthueri ishigakiana). Coleopterists' News, 17 - 18, 6.
- Kobayashi, H. (1983) The Scarabaeidae of Taiwan (6). Gekkan-Mushi, 143, 13 - 16.
- Kuijten, P. (1992) A revision of the genus Parastasia in the Indo-Australian region (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 275, 3 - 176.
- Yu, C. K., Kobayashi, H. & Chu, Y. I. (1998) The Scarabaeidae of Taiwan. Mu Sheng Co., Taipei, 263 pp.
- Fujioka, M. (2001) A list of Japanese lamellicornia. Kogane, 1 (Supplement), 1 - 293. [in Japanese, English title]
- Zorn, C. (2006) Subfamily Rutelinae, tribe Rutelini. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3, Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea, Dascilloidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 276 - 277.
- Sakai, K. & Fujioka, M. (2007) Atlas of Japanese Scarabaeoidea. Vol. 2. Phytophagous group I. Roppon-Ashi Entomological Books, Tokyo, 173 pp. [in Japanese, English title]
- Zorn, C. & Bezdek, A. (2016) Subfamily Rutelinae. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3, Scarabaeoidea, Scirtoidea, Dascilloidea, Buprestoidea, Byrrhoidea. Revised and updated edition. Brill, Leiden, pp. 317 - 358.