A review of the genera Prismognathus Motschulsky and Cladophyllus Houlbert (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from China, with the description of two new species
Author
Huang, Hao
Author
Chen, Chang-Chin
text
Zootaxa
2012
3255
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.280626
bdb9a932-2643-48f1-8545-cfeb75a683cd
1175-5326
280626
Key to the female
Prismognathus
and
Cladophyllus
from
China
(using genitalic characters only)
Prismognathus sinensis
,
P. p i l u e n s i s
and
Cladophyllus nobuhikoi
are not included in the following key, as their genitalia have not been examined.
1 Spermathecal duct wide. Base of spermatheca near the attachment point of the spermathecal gland thinner than spermathecal duct................................................................................... 2 (
Cladophyllus
)
- Spermathecal duct thin. Base of spermatheca near the attachment point of the spermathecal gland wider than spermathecal duct...................................................................................... 3 (
Prismognathus
)
2 Spermathecal duct about as long as hemisternite. Base of spermatheca relatively wide..............
C. oberthuri
Houlbert
- Spermathecal duct shorter than hemisternite. Base of spermatheca relatively thin..................
C. bousqueti
Boucher
3 Spermathecal gland obsolete, not wider than its duct.......................................................... 4
- Spermathecal gland markedly wider than its duct........................................................... 6
4 Spermatheca longer and wider than the combined hemisternites. Spermathecal duct about half as long as spermatheca.......................................................................
P. kanghianus kanghianus
(Didier & Séguy)
- Spermatheca neither longer nor wider than the combined hemisternites. Spermathecal duct longer than half of the spermatheca.................................................................................................... 5
5 Contracted basal portion of spermatheca markedly long and tuber-like.......................
P. haojiani
Huang & Chen
- Contracted basal portion of spermatheca short and conical....................................
P. arcuatus
(Houlbert)
6 Contracted basal portion of spermatheca longer than or as long as half of the spermatheca..............
P. davidis
Deyrolle
- Contracted basal portion of spermatheca shorter than half of the spermatheca..................................... 7
7 Spermatheca relatively large and markedly longer than the whole sclerotized part of female genitalia. Spermathecal gland about as large as hemisternite...........................................................
P. klapperichi
Bomans
- Spermatheca relatively small and shorter than the whole sclerotized part of female genitalia. Spermathecal gland markedly smaller than hemisternite............................................................................... 8
8 Spermatheca plus spermathecal duct about as long as the whole sclerotized part of female genitalia. Spermatheca relatively small and markedly narrower than the combined hemisternites.................................................. 9
- Spermatheca plus spermathecal duct markedly longer than the whole sclerotized part of female genitalia. Spermatheca relatively large and not markedly narrower than the combined hemisternites...................................... 10
9 Basal part of spermatheca more contracted as a tube.........................................
P. nigricolor
Boucher
- Basal part of spermatheca gradually contracted, not like a tube..................................
P. sukkitorum
Nagai
10 Spermathecal duct approximately half the length of the spermatheca........................................... 11
- Spermathecal duct longer than half the length of the spermatheca.............................................. 12
11 Hemisternite not markedly elongate. Spermatheca without a tuber-like basal portion.....................
P. siniaevi
Ikeda
- Hemisternite markedly elongate. Spermatheca with a tuber-like basal portion...............................................................................................
P. triapicalis
(Houlbert)
subspecies (outside of Sichuan)
12 Spermathecal gland plus its duct longer than half of the spermatheca.........................................................
P. dauricus
(Motschulsky)
,
P. triapicalis
(Houlbert) (Sichuan)
,
P. alessandrae
Bartolozzi
,
P. formosanus
Nagel
- Spermathecal gland plus its duct shorter than half of the spermatheca........................................... 13
13 Spermatheca less sclerotized. Hemisternite more elongated..................................
P. shani
Huang & Chen
- Spermatheca more sclerotized. Hemisternite less elongated...............................
P. prossi
Bartolozzi & Wan