A New Subspecies of Platycerus hongwonpyoi (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from Nei Mongol Zizhiqu of North China

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by  Imura, Y

E/、1'1't1、To、/-、,(),34(1):l35-137、May20、2006
ANewSubspeciesofPlatycerushongwonpyoi(Coleoptera,Lucanidae)
fromNeiMongolZizhiquofNorthChina
Yuki IMURA
Shinohara-cho1249-8,Kohoku-ku,Yokohama,222-0026Japan
and
LucaBARTOLOZZI
MuseodiStoriaNaturaledeltaUniversitadiFircnzc,SezioncdiZoologia''LaSpecola
ViaRomana,17-50125.Firenzc,Italy
Abstract AnewsubspeciesofthclucanidbeetlePla、t・col・t1、.・/1011g、、・o,1p、:・01isdo
scribed、fromNeiMongolZizl、iquo、fNorthChinaunderthenan、cP/1.,11ongolicils.
Platycerus11ong、、,onp、:,01IMURAetCHoE(1989,p.20)wasoriginallydescribed
fromtheChiri-sanMountainsinSouthKorea,andisratherwidelydistributedfromthe
KoreanPeninsulatothenortheasternpartofChina(LiaoningProvince).Thepopula-
tiondistributed in the Kumgang-sanareaofNorth Korea is represented by subsp
merkli (IMURAetCHoE,1989,p 21). Itwaslater foundtospreadover thecentralpart
of China, and threemore subspecies weredescribed, namely, qinlingensis IMuRA
(l993,p.12) fromtheQinlingMountainsofsouthernShaanxi,dabashanensisOKUDA
(1997,p. 12) fromtheDabaShanMountainson thebordersofChongqingShiand
Shaanxi, andfuniuenslsIMURA(2005,p 498) from the Fu'niu Shan Mountains of
westernHenan. Inaddition,a femaleof thesamespecies was recordedby IMuRA
(2004,p 248) fromMt.DalaoShanofwesternHubei,thoughthesubspecificidentifi-
cationhasbeensuspended.
Recently,wehadanopportunity toexaminealongseries ofspecimensofP
hongwonpyo1collected from theDaqingShan MountainsofNei Mongol Zizhiqu
(=InnerMongolia) inNorthChina.Afteracarefulcomparativestudy,wehavecome
totheconclusionthat theNei Mongolpopulationcanbedistinguishable fromall the
knownsubspeciesof thisspecies. Itwill thereforebedescribedasanewsubspecies
underthenameofmongolicusnov.inthepresentpaper.
Beforegoing further, thefirstauthorwishestoexpresshisheartythankstoMr.
TatsuyaNllsAToofBioindicatorCo.,Ltd.,Tokyo, forkindlysubmittingthespecimens
forstudy. Thanks arealsodue toDr.Shun-lobi UENo (National Science Museum,
Tokyo)forreadingthemanuscriptofthispaper.
136 YukiIMURAandLucaBARTOLOZZI
Plalycerushongwonpyoimo,1golicusIMURAetBARTOLOZZI,SubSP nov.
(Figs.1-3)
Length (includingmandibles): , 9.5-12.0 (arithmetic mean ie97) mm;
,
9.2-11.l(arithmeticmeanie32)mm.
Differs fromthenominotypica1hong、、,onpyo1andsubsp merkli of the Korean
Peninsulainthefollowingrespects:1)maleprotibiamoreorlessred-brownish,while
itisconstantlyblackinthepopulationsdistributedintheKoreanPeninsula;2)male
mandibleslessremarkablyhookedinwardsatapical quarterandmoregradually ta-
pered towardsapices,withthedorsalsurfaceflatterandlessstronglyconvexabove
alongtheinnerrim;3)elytramoregraduallynarrowedposteriadbehindapical third,
aboveall inmale;4)apairofvisor-likeprotuberancesonventralmarginofaedeagus
hardlybentinwardsbutnearlystraightlyprotrudedbilaterally.
From subsp qlnlingensls (QinlingMountains, Shaanxi),subsp dabashanensis
(Daba Shan Mountains, Chongqing-Shaanxi) and subsp fitnluensls (Funiu Shan
Mountains, Henan), the new subspecies is readily distinguishableby the following
points: 1)colorationofdorsal surfacemuchmorestrongly bluish inmale;2)male
protibiamoreor lessred-brownish;3)colorationofsternitesVIIandthelateralparts
ofstemitesVI-IVdarkerinmale;4)malemandibles largerandlessstronglyhooked
Fi9S. 1-3. P/atvce''fis /long、、'olp、'01mo'1go/Ious from Daqing Shan of Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, North
China. - l, holotype;2, ,paratype;3,♀,paratypc.
,
NewSubspeciesofPl1(t1,col・fistron、NciMongol 137
inwards;5)centralpartofelytramorenarrowlyrugose-striateinmale,alsomuchnar-
rowlyorevenhardlysoinfemale;6)aedeagusnarrowerinventralview,withapairof
visor-likeprotuberanceslessremarkablybentinwards.
Typeseries. Holotype: DaqingShan [大青Ill] Mountains, of Nei Mongol
,
Zizhiqu [=Inner Mongolia], NorthChina,2~5-III-2005, local collectors leg., de-
positedinMuseodi StoriaNaturaledeltaUniversitadiFirenze,SezionediZoo1ogia
“LaSpecola” (collectionnumber12414).Paratypes: 1 ,samedataanddepositoryas
fortheholotype(collectionnumber12415);51 27 “Wn-Ma-Gou,Ao-Han-Qi
, ,
[傲、又f旗?]County, InnerMongolia(At.Mt.Da-Qing-Shan-Region)”,20~28-II-2005,
separatelydepositedinthecollectionsofY.IMURAandT.NllsATo.
要 約
井付有希・L. BARToLozz1:中国内蒙古自治区から発見されたチョウセンコルリクワガタの1
新亜種. - 中国「1、1蒙古自治区の大青1」1塊から発見されたチョウセンコルリクワガタの標本
を検した結果, 既知の諸1111種から識別が可能な形態的特徴を有していることが判明したため,
P/a0,col・,,s/long,,,cliff,,o,Inc,1go/1c,Isという新亜種名を与えて記械した.
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