. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 19B. 19A Fig. 19 : Stenus articulipenis n. sp. D: male 8th sterrate. A: aedeagus, ventral view; B: male 9th sterilite; S. articulipenis n. sp. shares with S. perplexus Puthz and S. kempi Bnh. the same male secondary characters, the same build and punctur- ation, only differing in minor proportions, and the presence of a particular form of heavily sclerotised expulsion clasp of the penis (stippled in the drawing), which varies in shape in each species. It differs from all known Steninae by the extraordinary « articulat
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. 19B. 19A Fig. 19 : Stenus articulipenis n. sp. D: male 8th sterrate. A: aedeagus, ventral view; B: male 9th sterilite; S. articulipenis n. sp. shares with S. perplexus Puthz and S. kempi Bnh. the same male secondary characters, the same build and punctur- ation, only differing in minor proportions, and the presence of a particular form of heavily sclerotised expulsion clasp of the penis (stippled in the drawing), which varies in shape in each species. It differs from all known Steninae by the extraordinary « articulated » structure of the median lobe. The male paratype was found to be lacking an aedeagus; possibly this was torn off while extruded, or during copulation, before capture. Stenus (Parastenus) kempi Brnh. Stenus kempi Bernhauer, 1926, Ent. Mitt. XV, 132. Stenus kempi Cameron, 1930, Faun. Brit. Ind., Col. Staph. I, 401. lcJ, 2$$: Sakaerat Experimental Station, , H. Franz. This species was described from an ex. taken under bark in N. India. The exx. above communicated to me by Puthz, are from sifting or funnel Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria (Genoa, Italy). Genova : Stab. tipo-litografico P. Pellas Fu L.
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