Morphostenophanes tuberculatus Gao & Ren, 2009

Zhou, De-Yao, 2020, A revision of the genus Morphostenophanes Pic, 1925 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Stenochiinae, Cnodalonini), Zootaxa 4769 (1), pp. 1-81 : 71

Morphostenophanes tuberculatus Gao & Ren, 2009 ṬǾẎȐAEƤ

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Morphostenophanes tuberculatus Gao & Ren, 2009: 315 (type locality: Yakou , Pianma, Lushui County, Yunnan, China), fig. 12–14, 40.

Type material examined. Holotype of Morphostenophanes tuberculatus labelled (translated from Chinese): ‘ 2005- 5·19 Lushui Pianma Yakou [handwritten in white label] // 2005-V-19 Yunnan Lushui Pianma Yakou Xiao-Hong Ou Museum of Hebei University [printed label] // Holotype [red label] // Morphostenophane s tuberculatus Gao et Ren, 2009 : Acta Zool. Hung., 55(4): 315-318, figs. 31-38, 40’ (male, MHBU, Fig. 46E ). Examined through two photographs taken by Xing-Long Bai.

Comments. Morphostenophanes tuberculatus has the elytra with densely scattered unevenly sized tubercles, which resemble those of M. chongli chongli and M. chongli glaber . However, these two species are very different in many ways (see comparative notes of M. chongli ) so that they clearly not belong to the same species group. Small body (body length 15.5 mm as mentioned in original publication), carinate apical margin of parameres ( Gao & Ren 2009, Fig. 37 ) in M. tuberculatus suggest potential relation between M. tuberculatus and jendeki -group species.

Distribution. ( Map 1 ) CHINA: Yunnan.

Figures

Map 1. Distribution of the Morphostenophanes species. A. Enlargement of Central and Western Yunnan Province.

FIGURE 37. Habitus of Morphostenophanes furvus Zhou new species. Male (A, C), and female (B, D); in dorsal (A, B), and lateral view (C, D). Scale bars = 5 mm.

FIGURE 46. Habitus of Morphostenophanes species in the jendeki-group: M. tanikadoi Masumoto, male (A, C), and female (B, D); in dorsal (A, B), and lateral view (C, D). Holotype male of M. tuberculatus in dorsal view (E) with labels (F), not to scale. Scale bars = 3 mm.