Lathrobium longwangshanense Peng, Li & Zhao, 2012

Peng, Zhong, Li, Li-Zhen & Zhao, Mei-Jun, 2014, Seventeen new species and additional records of Lathrobium (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from mainland China, Zootaxa 3780 (1), pp. 1-35 : 33-34

Lathrobium longwangshanense Peng, Li & Zhao, 2012

( Figs 24 D–F)

Material studied (7 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀). China: Zhejiang: 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,250–1,450 m 14.v.2013, Hu, Lv & Xie leg.’ ( SNUC); 1 ♀, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,250–1,450 m 14.v.2013, Chen & Pan leg. ( SNUC); 1 ♂, Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°27'E, alt.

1,050–1,200 m 15.v.2013, Li, Lv, Xie & Zhen leg. ( SNUC); 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀ [2 ♂♂ teneral], Anji County, Tianmu Shan, alt. 1,500 m, 15.viii.2010, Hu Jia-Yao leg.’ ( SNUC); 1 ♂ [teneral], Anji County, Longwang Shan, 30°24'N 119°26'E, alt. 1,250–1,450 m 3.x.2003, Hu & Tang leg. ( SNUC).

Comment. The original description is based on a single male ( Peng et al. 2012a). The previously unknown female sexual characters are as follows: posterior margin of female tergite VIII ( Fig. 24 D) obtusely angled in the middle; female sternite VIII ( Fig. 24 E) much longer than tergite VIII, apical margin strongly convex; female tergite IX ( Fig. 24 F) with long antero-median portion without median suture and with short postero-lateral processes; female tergite X approximately 1.4 times as long as antero-median portion of tergite IX ( Fig. 24 F).

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FIGURE 24. Lathrobium lingae (A – C) and L. longwangshanense (D – F). A, D — female tergite VIII; B, E — female sternite VIII; C, F — female tergites IX – X. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.