New taxa of the subfamily Cantharinae (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from south-eastern Asia, with notes on other species III
Author
Švihla, Vladimír
text
Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
46811
10.5281/zenodo.277686
c7e66d5a-1a9f-4e1c-bbc2-5531943c5339
1175-5326
277686
Lycocerus nigrolineatus
Pic, 1914
Figs. 71–72
.
Lycocerus nigrolineatus
Pic, 1914
: 10
.
Material examined.
N
Vietnam
: Moc Chau, Truong Yen,
950 m
,
30.iv.1995
, A. Saito lgt.,
1 female
; Hoang Lien Son distr., Sa Pa,
1600 m
,
11.–16.v.1990
, J. Horák lgt.,
1 female
, determined by Kazantsev as
Athemus nigrolineatus
Pic
(cited by
Kazantsev 1999
) (all
NHMB
); NE
Laos
, Houa Phan prov., Ban Saluei, Mt. Phou Pane, 20°12– 13.5ˏN 103°59.5ˏ–104°01ˏE,
1340–2000 m
,
28.iv.–11.v.2001
, J. Bezdĕk lgt,
1 female
; same locality but
15.iv.– 15.v.2008
, Lao collectors lgt.,
3 males
4 females
(all
NMPC
); same locality but
10.–30.v.2009
, M. Brancucci lgt.,
1 female
(
NHMB
).
Distribution.
Northern
Vietnam
(
Kazantsev 1999
).
New for the fauna of
Laos
.
Comments.
L. nigrolineatus
and following three newly described species can be characterized as follows: basal portion of head more or less largely yellow to brown, pronotum with narrow, mediolongitudinal dark spot, antennomeres more or less widened in both sexes. Last abdominal sternite is very similar in all species, as in
Fig. 70
(
L. marginalis
); it cannot be used for differentiation of the species.
Lycocerus karenensis
Champion, 1926
and
Lycocerus cordieri
Pic, 1915
also posess at least partly yellow head and narrow mediolongitudinal spot on pronotum, but their antennae are filiform in both sexes; the pronotal spot is absent in
Lycocerus rufocapitatus
Kazantsev, 1999
.