Taxonomic review of the Themus (Telephorops) nepalensis species-group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) Author Yang, Yuxia Author Xi, Huacong Author Yang, Xingke Author Liu, Haoyu text ZooKeys 2019 884 81 106 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.884.32550 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.884.32550 1313-2970-884-81 AC4289EF56024BB9807D578B858BB0B1 8DBA9A85768052D8B3603886F5DA2BE8 Themus (Telephorops) masatakai Okushima, 2003 Figs 7C , 9H Themus (Telephorops) masatakai Okushima, 2003: 280, figs 1-4 (habitus photo, aedeagus illustrations); Kopetz 2010 : 185 (distributional data), fig. 4 (aedeagus illustration); Kopetz 2016 : 255, figs 15 (habitus photo), 44 (female abdominal sternite VIII photo). Material examined. LAOS : 1♂, 1♀ (NHMB), Oudomxai, 17 km NEE, 1100 m, 20°45'N , 102°09'E , 2002.V.1.-9, leg. Vit Kuban ; 1♂ (NHMB), Phongsaly, Ban Sano Mai, 1150m, 21°21'N , 102°03'E , 2004.V.19.-26, M. Brancucci; 1♂ (NHMB), Phongsaly, 1500 m, 21°41'N , 102°06'E , 2004.V.6.-17, M. Brancucci; 1♂ (NHMB), 20 km NW Louang Namtha, 900-1000 m, 21°09.2'N , 101°18.7'E , 1997.V.5.-30, C. Holzschuh. CHINA , Yunnan : 1♂ (IZAS), Xishuangbanna, Meng'a , 1050-1080 m, 1958.V.13, leg. F.J. Pu; 1♂ (IZAS), same data, leg. S.Y. Wang; 1♀ (IZAS), same locality and collector, 1958.VIII.10; 1♂ (IZAS), Simao, Rd. Kunluo 591 km, 1350 m, 1957.V.11, leg. F.J. Pu; 1♀ (IZAS), Simao, 1957.V.23, leg. A. Mentsyaskii ; 1♀ (IZAS), Simao, 1200 m, 1957.V.11, leg. S.Y. Wang. Supplementary description. Female. Like male, but antennomeres VII-XI without impressions along outer edges (while present with smooth narrow longitudinal or oblong impressions in male), terminal abdominal ventrite wide (while narrow and triangular in male) ( Fig. 9H ) with posterior edge narrowly and triangularly emarginate medially between paired rounded protuberances, each protuberance nearly as wide as the distance between it and apicolateral angle and exceeding apex of the latter. Internal genitalia ( Fig. 7C ): diverticulum expanded apically and rounded at apex, about twice as long as its maximal width; spermatheca expanded apically. Distribution. China (Yunnan, Guangxi); Laos, northernVietnam.