Lathrobium (s.str.) ishiharai Hayashi, 1994

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Lathrobium (s.str.) ishiharai Hayashi, 1994

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ishiharai Hayashi, 1994: 145

ishiharai ; Ryvkin, 2011: 157 (remarks) ishiharai ishiharai ; Assing, 2013a: 1637 ishiharai ; Assing, 2013b: 1645

Material. CHINA: 1 male (VA): Beijing, Xishia. IX.1992. G. de Rougemont .

Remarks. This remarkable species was originally described from more than fifty specimens most of which were collected from environs of Osaka (Honshu, Japan). Recently, Assing (2013b) recorded ten specimens of L. ishiharai from China (vicinity of Beijing); the author reported in that paper that the sexual characters of the males in the Chinese material were similar to those of illustrated by Hayashi (1994) from the Japanese type series.

I have studied a male specimen borrowed from Dr. Assing. It really conforms to the figures and description by Hayashi (1994), excluding lighter coloration (the specimen seems immature), somewhat shorter elytra, and less developed sclerotized preapical nodule in aedeagus; but the general shape of the aedeagus definitely confirmes that the Chinese series belongs to L. ishiharai .