Stenothemus harmandi species-group

Ge, Shujuan, Yang, Xingke, Liu, Haoyu & Yang, Yuxia, 2021, Studies on the Stenothemus harmandi species-group (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), with descriptions of two new species from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 68659-68659 : 68659

Stenothemus harmandi species-group

Diagnosis

Body is usually brown and mixed with irregular dark brown markings, except for only a few which are uniformly dark brown or black. The posterior angles of pronotum are sharply protruding laterad or obtusely rounded. The aedeagus with both ventral process and dorsal plate of each paramere are bent ventrad, the ventral process is thickened apically in varying degrees in lateral view and the dorsal plate is greatly narrowed apically in dorsal view. In the female, the abdominal tergite VIII is curled ventrad to enfold lateral sides of sternite VIII, which is strongly narrowed posteriorly.

Distribution

China, India, Nepal.