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
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Zootaxa
2012
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36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.280626
bdb9a932-2643-48f1-8545-cfeb75a683cd
1175-5326
280626
Prismognathus siniaevi
Ikeda, 1997
(
Figs. 25–26, 34
,
73–74, 76
,
131
,
164–165
,
185
,
221
,
235
)
Prismognathus siniaevi
Ikeda 1997
: 29
[
type
locality: Sapa, northern
Vietnam
],
Fig. 3
, male
holotype
;
Fujita 2010
: 165
, plate 99, Figs. 493 (1–3), males and female, from northern
Vietnam
.
Prismognathus siniaevi rattakiti
Nagai, 2005
: 32
[
type
locality: Chudo Razi, northeastern Kachin, northern
Myanmar
],
Fig. 3
, male
holotype
;
Fujita 2010
: 165
, plate 99, Fig. 493-4,
holotype
male. Questionable subspecies.
Material examined.
CHINA
: Yunnan:
1 3, 2 ƤƤ, Nujiang, Gongshan County, Qiqi station of the nature reserve,
1900m
,
VII.2010
, X.-D. Yang & W.-X. Bi leg.; 2 3, 1 Ƥ (
CLYB
), Nujiang, Gongshan County,
VII.2011
, Y.-B. Li leg.; 1 3, Honghe, Jinping, Fenshuiling Nature Reserve,
VI.2010
, X.-D. Yang & W.-X. Lin leg.
Identification
. Two subspecies have been described, both with male
holotypes
illustrated. They are characterized by the mandible nearly of the same width from apex to base (different from
P. dauricus
,
P. davidis
,
P. alessandrae
and
P. prossi
), the absence of the subbasal teeth along the dorsal ridge of the male mandible (different from
P. klapperichi
,
P. alessandrae
and
P. davidis
), a large gap between the ventral subbasal teeth and the median teeth of the mandible (different from
P. davidis
,
P. prossi
,
P. alessandrae
and
P. dauricus
), and the straight preocular margins (different from
P. prossi
and
P. alessandrae
). Specimens from Yunnan examined by us match the above-mentioned characters of
P. siniaevi
. Moreover, we found that the underside of the body of
P. siniaevi
shows a pubescence that is not present in the other species.
The two subspecies are not easily distinguishable, as only a single male of
P
.
siniaevi rattakiti
is known from
Myanmar
. The male specimen from Gongshan, northwestern Yunnan does not match with the characters of
P
.
siniaevi rattakiti
from the adjacent area in northern
Myanmar
. For a more precise subspecific definition of
P. siniaevi
, more specimens need to be examined.
The females were unknown until
Fujita (2010)
illustrated a female specimen from
Vietnam
identified as this species without any discussion. One of the male specimens examined by us was collected from decayed wood alongside two female specimens, thus these females can be considered as the females of
P. s i n i a e v i
. A close examination shows that the female specimens have the peculiar pubescence on the ventral surface of the body as in male which is not found in the other species.
Taxonomic notes.
This species is well separated from all of the other species by the marked pubescence on ventral surface of the body which is not shared by any other species.
Distribution.
Yunnan (Nujiang, Jinping); northern
Vietnam
, northeastern
Myanmar
.