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<mods:titleid="6B83B7E0EBD3E4B1C3A8D83081928F11">Two new species of the genus Notiophilus Dumeril, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from India and Afghanistan</mods:title>
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wide. Its upper side is black and slightly lustrous. Eyes are big and hemispherical. Forehead has 8 frontal furrows, the outer furrows being doubled at the base and, in relation to the middle ones, which are parallel, their outer ridges are symmetrical and slightly C convex. The outer striae, which separate the forehead ridges, form the rest of the forehead and are heavily impressed. The stria at the eye base is deep with a big setiferous puncture in the middle. A ridge-like elevation between the outer forehead stria and the stria at the eye is rather roughly dotted and has rudiments of some short striae. Scutellum has elongated ridges, but at its base there is a transversal stria. Some scutellar ridges are doubled in the forward direction. Scutellum has 2 setiferous punctures. Labrum is mat with a median line, but along its rounded front margin has a convex row of setiferous punctures. Antennae are dichromatic: segments 1-4 are brown, but the rest are black. The last palpomere of the maxillary palp is sharp and dark. The end of the last labial palp segment is not sharp; it has a straight margin and is dark. The basic segments of the probes of the mandibles and the labium are lighter, russet. The lower side of the head is lustrous, without puncture, except for some fine dots at the lower side of the eye.
. Pronotum is black, lustrous, and slightly heart-shaped. Its discal part is lustrous, almost smooth, with sparse and very fine puncture. Along the sides of the pronotum there is a rather rough puncture. The median line of the pronotum is rather deeply impressed in its discal part, not so distinct at the base, and at the frontal part not marked at all. The hind angles of the pronotum are curtailed and do not project to the sides. Its base dimples are deeply impressed. Although the pronotum is slightly heart-shaped, the bent of its side margins at the base is rather unmarked and does not form a distinct neck-like narrowing. The prothorax is lustrous with a specular surface and groups of rough dots on its sides. The prothorax protuberance has deep U-shaped striae at its margins. The coxae of the forelegs are black, their trochanters are russet, femurs are dark brown, tibiae are brown, and tarsi are dark brown. In males, 3 tarsal segments of the forelegs are widened and have soles of thick silvery hair. The mesothorax is black and lustrous, too. The midleg coxae are black with russet trochanters, dark brown femurs, brown tibiae, and dark brown tarsus segments. The metathorax is black, lustrous, and slightly punctured on the sides. Episterna are dotted. The proportion of the length and width of the episterna is 2.0. The femurs of the hind legs are black, large, and smooth. Trochanters and femurs are also almost black, tibiae, similarly to the forelegs and midlegs, are brown, and tarsi are dark black.
. Surface is monochrome black, slightly lustrous. The rows of dots on the elytrae are distinct in their basal, dorsal, and lateral parts, but in the apical part the size of dots is smaller as they gradually disappear while not reaching the top. The elytra ends have 2 apical setiferous punctures, along which there is a distinct reticulate microsculpture and fine dissipated puncture. The spaces between the rows of dots, including the 2
elytral interval between the rows of dots is approximately of the same width as the following two taken together, the latter being of the same width. The next two spaces between the rows of dots are also of the same width, but they are narrower than the previous ones. The rows of dots 4-6 are slightly impressed at the base and slightly convex in the direction of the scutellum. The dorsal setiferous puncture is situated in the 4
. Every sternite is convex, lustrous, and smooth with an uneven, relief surface. The anal sternite in males has two setiferous punctures, which on the side sport a little plicated area that stands out from the overall smooth background.
interval, which is almost as wide as the following 2 intervals taken together, and, at the base, impressed and distinct rows of dots 4-6 with narrower intervals, whereas in
S. the rows 4-6 are not so deeply impressed but straight with wider intervals. These intervals, in the new species, are noticeably narrower than each following 2 intervals taken together. In addition, the forehead ridges have a slightly different form.
<bibRefCitationid="984B1C99FFC60B3491775474FC49FBDF"author="Dostal A."box="[774,911,1119,1143]"pageId="3"pageNumber="130"pagination="71 - 81"refId="ref3971"refString="Dostal A. 1986. Die Notiophilus - Ar ten Nordindiens, Pakistans und Nepals (Carabidae, Col.). Koleopterologische Rundschau 58: 71 - 81."type="journal article"year="1986">Dostal, 1986</bibRefCitation>
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, which is known from the Pakistani province of Swat, Jabba surroundings, but differs by a less contracted prothorax sclerite, which does not show protruding, sharp angles, as in
D., are smoothed at the top part and do not reach the top. They have a slightly different microsculpture. The proportion between the length and width of the metathorax episterna in
, which is distributed in the North Indian Himalayas, this species differs by a much less expressed metallic lustre of the body, different form and puncture of the prothorax sclerite, different microsculpture of the elytrae, and other features. In the new species the 3
, which is distributed in the west part of the Himalayas, the new species differs by the body form and colour, surface microsculpture, metathorax episternal form, and a number of other features.
as the totality of their morphological features is sufficient to determine that these specimens belong to new, up to now unknown species. After almost 20 years of research, having processed the materials deposited with more than 60 entomological collections worldwide, no
