A revision of the genus Morphostenophanes Pic, 1925 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Stenochiinae, Cnodalonini)
Author
Zhou, De-Yao
Room 901, No. 126, Lane 1331, Chenggu Road, Shanghai, 201800 China. E-mail: scydmaeninae @ 163. com
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Zootaxa
2020
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4769.1.1
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Morphostenophanes tanikadoi
Masumoto, 1998
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(
Figs. 46
A–D; 47E, J, O, T; 48E, I, V–X; 49D, H)
Morphostenophanes tanikadoi
Masumoto, 1998: 308
, fig. 1, 12–14;
Löbl
et al
. 2008: 344
;
Gao & Ren 2009: 313
.
Material examined.
CHINA
:
Sichuan
:
1♂
(
CZDY
, a sample of muscle tissue was preserved in 99.7% ethanol at –18 °C),
Shimian County
,
Yele Dam
,
26°55’22’’N
,
102°13’32’’E
, in wilted leaves,
2500 m
,
2015.vii.25
,
De-Yao Zhou
;
1♀
(
MHBU
)
,
1♀
(
CDYZ
)
,
Liziping
,
Mamadi
,
28°59’18.41’’N
,
102°24’34.64’’E
,
2600 m
,
2016. vii. 24
, De-
Yao Zhou
.
Comparative notes.
Morphostenophanes tanikadoi
is unique among
jendeki
-group species by having slender body with strongly shiny green luster, elytral sculpture consisting of sparsely scattered short segments of striae connecting few deep punctures, sometimes varied into sharply marked large pits, intervals only weakly convex.
M. tanikadoi
and
M. minor
may be closely related by sharing similar habitus, but can be easily distinguished by their different body color, different elytral sculpture, and shorter legs. Detailed discussion see in the comments of
M
.
minor
.
Distribution.
(
Map 1
)
CHINA
:
Sichuan
.