Themus (Telephorops) laboissierei (Pic, 1929)
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Themus (Telephorops) laboissierei (Pic, 1929) |
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Themus (Telephorops) laboissierei (Pic, 1929) Figs 4 C–D View Figure 4 , 7B View Figure 7 , 9G View Figure 9
Triblius laboissierei Pic, 1929a: 195, 196.
Themus (Tryblius) separandus Wittmer, 1975: 252, fig. 3 (aedeagus illustration). syn. n.
Themus (Telephorops) laboissierei : Wittmer 1983b: 200, figs 4 (aedeagus illustration), 65 (female abdominal sternite VIII illustration).
Themus (Telephorops) separandus : Kazantsev and Brancucci 2007: 271 (distributional data).
Type material examined.
1♂ (MNHN, lectotype of Triblius laboissierei ), [p-h]"TONKIN \ Chapa \ 3.VII.1917 \ JEANVOINE", [h]" Tryblius \ laboissierei \ n. sp.", [h] “type”, [p] “LECTOTYPUS”, [h]"Themus \ (Telephorops) \ laboissierei \ Pic \ det. W. Wittmer". The lectotype was designated by Wittmer (1983b).
1♂ (BMNH, holotype of Themus (Telephorops) separandus ), [p] "Gopaldhara, Darjeeling, 25.VII.1914, 3440-4720', leg. H. Stevens", [p] “HOLOTYPUS”, [h] "Themus \ (Tryblius) \ separandus \ Wittm. \ det. W. Wittmer".
Other material examined.
CHINA, Yunnan: 1♂ (IZAS), Jinping, Hetouzhai, 1700m, 1956.V.9, leg. K.R. Huang; same data, 1500-1700 m, 1956.V.11; 1♂, 1♀ (IZAS), Xishuangbanna, Menghai, 1200-1600 m, 1958.VII.18, leg. S.Y. Wang; 1♂ (IZAS), same locality, 1958.VII.21, leg. F.J. Pu;1♂ (MHBU), Qushi, Jiangmu, 2011.VII.16,leg. H.Y. Liu. Guangxi: 1♂, 3♀ (MHBU), Tianlin, Cengwanglaoshan, 2014.VIII.16, leg. J.H. Huang; 1♀ (MHBU), same locality, 1300-1400 m, 2009.V.16-19, collector unknown.
Supplementary description.
Female. Like male, but antennomeres V–X without impressions along outer edges (while present with smooth narrow longitudinal or oblong impressions in male), terminal abdominal ventrite wide (narrower and triangular in male) ( Fig. 9G View Figure 9 ) with posterior edge narrowly and triangularly emarginate medially between paired obtuse protuberances, each protuberance nearly as wide as the distance between it and apicolateral angle and not reaching apex of the latter. Internal genitalia ( Fig. 7B View Figure 7 ): diverticulum hardly narrowed apically and rounded at apex, about three times as long as its maximal width; spermatheca expanded apically.
Distribution.
China (Yunnan, Guangxi); northern Laos, northern Vietnam, northern India.
Remarks.
Themus (Tryblius) separandus was described based on a single male type and its aedeagus was illustrated by Wittmer (1975). Except the original publication, no additional information was available. The type locality is "Gopaldhara, Darjeeling" (N. India), not Bhutan as that listed by Kazantsev and Brancucci (2007).
Wittmer (1975) noted that the single specimen designated as holotype of T. separandus was separated from the collection of T. crassimargo in BMNH. Wittmer differentiated T. separandus from T. crassimargo by the structure of aedeagus, also from T. cavipennis and T. nepalensis in the body coloration and aedeagus. He made no comparison with other species.
In the present study, the habitus ( Fig. 4 C–D View Figure 4 ) and aedeagi of T. separandus and T. laboissierei were compared ( Wittmer 1975: fig. 2; Wittmer 1983b: 4), but no differences found. Thus we recommend T. separandus Wittmer, 1975 to be junior synonym of T. laboissierei , according to the Principle of Priority ( ICZN 1999, Article 23.1).
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