Megadiestramima (Megadiestramima) intermedia Sorozhenko et Gorochov, 1992

Megadiestramima (Megadiestramima) intermedia Sorozhenko et Gorochov, 1992 View in CoL

( Figs 1–5, 36–38)

Material examined. Northern Vietnam: 5 males (holotype and paratypes) , 3 females (paratypes), Quang Ninh Prov., Bai Tu Long Bay , Fong Vong I., forest, 11–12.X.1990, V. Kuznetsov ( ZIN, holotype and 1 female; EATB, 4 males, 2 females) ; 2 males (paratypes), same province and bay, Thanh Lam I., forest, 18.X.1990, V. Kuznetsov ( EATB) ; 5 females, same province, “Bai Tu Long I. and National Park ”, X.2008, S. Ryabov, N. Orlov ( ZIN) .

Note. This species is sufficiently described by Gorochov & Storozhenko (1992). Here it is recorded from a new point nearest to its type locality, but all the specimens from this point are females somewhat darker than the type specimens, and thus, these determinations are not very exact. Moreover, the genital plates of these females are similar in shape but not identical: some of them have a pair of small lateral spinules in the distal half (approximately as in Figs 9, 10, 14), but others are without such spinules ( Figs 4, 5); sometimes, there is a spinule on one lateral edge of this plate only (almost as in Fig. 18). These differences may be individual variability. The paratype of this taxon from southern part of China is a nymph, and its belonging to this species is very problematic.