Lycocerus guerryi atroapicipennis (Pic, 1914)

Wang, Younan, Liu, Haoyu, Yang, Xingke & Yang, Yuxia, 2023, Review of the Lycocerus pallidulus group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of six new species from China, ZooKeys 1176, pp. 243-285 : 243

Lycocerus guerryi atroapicipennis (Pic, 1914)

Cantharis atroapicipennis Pic, 1914:8.

Athemus (Isathemus) guerryi atroapicipennis : Wittmer 1995: 274, fig. 139.

Cantharis jeanvoinei Pic, 1927: 2. Synonymized by Wittmer 1995: 274.

Lycocerus guerryi atroapicipennis : Okushima 2005: 48.

Type material examined.

Holotype of Cantharis atroapicipennis : 1♂ (MNHN), Lao Kay.

Holotype of Cantharis jeanvoinei : 1♀ (MNHN), Tonkin, Chapa, 7.V.1918, Eanvoine.

Non-type material examined.

China: 1♂ (IZAS), Yunnan, Menlongbanna, Mengsong, 1600 m, 22.IV.1958, leg. C. B. Hong; 1♂ (IZAS), same data as the preceding, 23.IV.1958; 1♂(IZAS), Yunnan, Menghai, Nannuoshan, 1100 m, 28.IV.1957, leg. F. J. Pu.

Distribution.

China (new record: Yunnan); Vietnam.

Remarks.

The aedeagus of this subspecies is very similar to that of L. guerryi guerryi , but its elytra are darkened at apices enabling external identification. The body coloration is constant, and the elytra of the individuals from northern Yunnan are uniformly pale yellow ( L. guerryi guerryi ), while those from southern Yunnan and adjacent area (northern Vietnam) are always darkened at apices ( L. guerryi atroapicipennis ), so they are kept as two subspecies at the moment. Here, L. guerryi atroapicipennis is recorded in the Chinese fauna for the first time.