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
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36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.280626
bdb9a932-2643-48f1-8545-cfeb75a683cd
1175-5326
280626
Cladophyllus oberthuri
Houlbert, 1912
(
Figs. 1–4, 13–14
)
Cladophyllus oberthuri
Houlbert, 1912
: 139
[
type
locality: Tsekou (in Lancang valleys, northwestern Yunnan)], figures for habitus, mandible, antenna, canthus, legs, scutellum and mesosternum;
Mizunuma & Nagai 1994
: plate 148,
Fig. 111
, “
holotype
”;
Boucher 1996
: 73
,
lectotype
designation;
Fig. 3
, male head;
Fig. 6
, male mentum;
Fig. 9
, male pronotum; and
Fig. 15
, male genitalia.
Cladophyllus flavus
Didier, 1930
: 126
[
type
locality: “Yunnan, Sseu-tch’ouan, Thibet” (no exact locality)];
Mizunuma & Nagai 1994
: plate 148,
Fig. 112
, “
holotype
”;
Boucher 1996
: 73
,
lectotype
designation, synonymy.
Material examined.
CHINA
: Yunnan:
9 3, 4 ƤƤ, Diqing, Weixi County, Pantiange, ca.
2000m
,
8.VII. 2010
, Xiao-Dong Yang and Wen-Xuan Bi leg.; 2 3 (
CHH
,
CYXW
), Diqing, Weixi County, above
2000m
,
VII. 2006
, An-Ming Chen leg.
Identification
.
Boucher (1996)
designated the
lectotypes
of both
Cladophyllus oberthuri
and
C. flavus
and considered them as synonyms; he described and illustrated the male genitalia for the first time. According to the original description and Boucher’s paper,
C. oberthuri
can be distinguished from
C. bousqueti
Boucher, 1996
by the more deeply bifurcated antennomere 10, the less transverse mentum, the blunter lateral angles of the pronotum and the markedly longer flagellum of the median lobe with apex not enlarged. The male specimens examined by us match all these characters for
C. oberthuri
.
The female of
Cladophyllus oberthuri
are here illustrated and described for the first time; they have been found inside decayed logs together with the male specimens.
Taxonomic notes.
All three known species are allopatric in distribution:
C. oberthuri
is restricted to the Lancang valleys in northwestern Yunnan;
C. bousqueti
is distributed to the west of the Nujiang River and into northeastern
Myanmar
;
C. nobuhikoi
is restricted to the mountain ranges around China-Vietnam border. They are considered as separate because of the marked differences in male and female genitalia.
Distribution.
northwestern Yunnan (Lancang valleys).