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Sasajiscymnus tainanensis

Description

Sasajiscymnus tainanensis (Ohta, 1929)

(Fig. 65)

Chinese name: 台南ḧ瓢•

Pullus tainanensis Ohta, 1929: 7 (type locality: Tainan, Taiwan, China).— Miwa 1931: 89.

Scymnus (Pullus) tainanensis: Korschefsky 1931: 145.—Miwa & Yoshida 1935: 40; Mader 1955: 961.

Pseudoscymnus tainanensis: Pang & Gordon 1986: 157.— Kovář 2007: 582.

Sasajiscymnus tainanensis: Kitano 2010: 171.— Yu 2011: 125; Iqbal et al. 2020: 388.

Clitostethus nagasakiensis: Kamiya 1961: 280.

Pseudoscymnus nagasakiensis: Kamiya 1966: 79.— Sasaji 1971: 111; Yang & Wu 1972: 120; Yu 1995 a: 129; Pang et al. 2004: 88; Kovář 2007: 582. Synonymized by Yu, 2011: 125.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to S. anmashanus (Yang, 1971), but can be distinguished from the later by parameres about 3/4 as long as penis guide. In S. anmashanus, parameres are about 1/2 as long as penis guide (Fig. 6g).

Material examined. None.

Distribution. China (Taiwan); Japan.

Notes

Published as part of TONG, JUNBO, CHEN, XIAOSHENG, ZHANG, XIAONING, HUO, LIZHI, WU, GANG, PENG, ZHENGQIANG & WANG, XINGMIN, 2022, A review of the genus Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004 from China (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 5207 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5207.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7328080

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References

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