Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum Smetana, 1996

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Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum Smetana, 1996 (Fig. 2F, G)

Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum Smetana, 1996: 77.

Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum : Smetana 2001: 57, Shavrin and Smetana, 2016: 227.

Type material examined.

Paratype ♀: "KUATUN FUKIEN, China 21.4.46, (TSCHUNG SEN.) / PARATYPUS, Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum , A. Smetana 1995 [yellow label]" (CNC).

Additional material examined.

China: Zhejiang: 1 ♀, Qingyuan County, Baishanzu, 1200-1360 m 5.V.2004, Hu, Tang & Zhu leg. (SNUC).

Comparative notes.

Deinopteroloma tricuspidatum was previously known from Guadun, Fujian ( Smetana 1996). Considerable interspecific variability of D. tricuspidatum was observed in body size, punctation and the shape of pronotum (Fig. 2F, G). The shape of head and the morphology of female genital segment are constant. It is recorded from Zhejiang represents for the first time. For illustrations of D. tricuspidatum see Fig. 2F, G and Figs 1-3 in Smetana (1996).