Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, 2002

(Figures 6A–I, 12F)

Medvedev and Kantner, 2002: 262 (type locality: Thailand, prov. Mae Hong Son, Soppong; holotype deposited: NHMB) .

Material examined

CHINA: Yunnan: one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 7 May 1959, leg. Fuji Pu ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 20 May 1959, leg. Facai Zhang ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 24 May 1959, leg. Zhenfu Li ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengla, 8 June 1959, leg. Yiran Zhang ; one male, two females, Xishuangbanna, Meng’a, 2 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one male, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, 6 July 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng ; two females, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, 6 August 1958, leg. Xuwu Meng ; one male, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, 10 May 1959, leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; two females, Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, 25 May 1959, leg. Xuezhong Zhang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Menghun, 12 June 1958, leg. Leyi Zheng ; one male, one female, Xishuangbanna, Xiaomengyang, 5 July 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Damenglong, 7 July 1958, leg. Chunpei Hong ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengzhe, 3 July 1958, leg. Shuyong Wang ; one female, Xishuangbanna, Mengna, 28 June 1959, leg. Fuji Pu ; one female, Yiwubanna, Menglun, 25 July 1959, leg. Yiran Zhang ; one female, Kunming, 1 June 1957, leg. Lingchao Zang (IZ-CAS) .

Distribution

China (Yunnan), Thailand, Laos. This species is recorded for the first time from China.

Remarks

Aetheomorpha furcata Medvedev and Kantner, 2002 is close to A. decemnotata (Jacoby, 1892) in the colour pattern: the pronotum is completely fulvous and elytron is covered with four black spots. The obviously broad bidentate aedeagal apex is a useful character by which to recognize A. furcata Medvedev and Kantner. Moreover, this species also has the following characters: vertex and scutellum fulvous, body more slender, spermathecal duct very long, loosely coiled dozens of times with a thickened base. Moreover, the dorsal rectal sclerites are different from those in the other congeneric species, central sclerite is semicircular, lateral ones are sub-triangular.