Tetartopeus fragilis ( SHARP 1889)
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Tetartopeus fragilis ( SHARP 1889) |
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Tetartopeus fragilis ( SHARP 1889) View in CoL ( Figs 22-26 View Figs 22-29 )
Lathrobium fragile SHARP 1889: 258 View in CoL .
T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Lectotype, present designation: " Lathrobium fragile View in CoL Type D. S. Osaka. 7.7.1881. Japan Lewis [written next to specimen] / Japan. G. Lewis. / Type / Syntype / Sharp Coll 1905-313. / Lathrobium fragile Sharp, P.M. Hammond View in CoL det. 1979 / Lectotype Lathrobium fragile Sharp View in CoL , des. LE Watrous 1980 / Lathrobium fragile Sharp, V.I. Gusarov View in CoL det. 1993 / Lectotypus Lathrobium fragile Sharp View in CoL , desig. V. Assing 2011 / Tetartopeus fragilis (Sharp) View in CoL , det. V. Assing 2011" ( BMNH).
C o m m e n t: The original description is based on "five examples" from "Ogura lake, 7th July" ( SHARP 1889). One of the syntypes, a male dissected prior to the present study, was located in the collections of the BMNH. It has a lectotype label by Watrous attached
to it, but the designation was never published. The specimen is here formally designated as the lectotype.
D i a g n o s i s: Small and slender species; length of forebody 2.8 mm. Body darkbrown; elytra with pronounced and extensive yellowish spots in postero-lateral angles; legs and antennae reddish. Head distinctly oblong. Elytra approximately 0.9 times as long as pronotum ( Fig. 22 View Figs 22-29 ).
: tergite and sternite VIII as in Figs 23-24 View Figs 22-29 ; aedeagus small, approximately 0.75 mm long; ventral process very slender and very weakly curved in lateral view ( Fig. 25 View Figs 22-29 ); internal sac with four large sclerotized structures ( Fig. 26 View Figs 22-29 ).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is currently known only from Japan.
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Tetartopeus fragilis ( SHARP 1889)
Assing, V. 2011 |
Lathrobium fragile SHARP 1889: 258
SHARP D 1889: 258 |