Catalogue and Bibliography of the Hong Kong Carabidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Adephaga), with notes on the historic boundaries of Hong Kong as related to zoological collections
Author
Aston, Paul
text
Zootaxa
2016
4121
3
201
257
journal article
38912
10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.1
6cb37831-da16-4763-a32c-aef636512990
1175-5326
265007
172021D4-55C8-483F-A6B2-F823C3022F90
Genus
Pseudognathaphanus
Schauberger, 1932
Pseudognathaphanus punctilabris
(
MacLeay 1825
)
Bates (1886 & 1889) list
Pseudognathaphanus dispellens
(
Walker, 1859
)
as occurring in
Hong Kong
.
Kataev (2002)
pointed out that
P. dispellens
is confined to
Sri Lanka
and the very similar
P. punctilabris
is the species with the larger distribution covering eastern Asia.
Specimens collected in
Hong Kong
were determined using Kataev’s (2002) key. Frontal impressions were present, a character typical of
Pseudognathaphanus
, but these beetles were possibly distinct from
P. punctilabris
(
MacLeay 1825
)
in the male genitalia, as described by
Kataev (2002)
. Using
Andrewes (1920b)
the specimens key to
Pseudognathaphanus rufitactor
(
Bates, 1892
)
, but they seem to differ from both
Andrewes (1920b)
and
Bates (1892)
in having antennomere 3 black; elytral stria very weakly punctate and being slightly larger in size.
Material
: ♀ W.T.L.,
9.iv.12
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
28.x.15
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
4.xi.12
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
6.xi.13
; 1 ex. W.T.L.
12.xi.15
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
18.xi.14
; ♀ W.T.L.,
23.xi.14
; 1 ex. W.T.,
November 2011
;sight record W.T.L.
2.xii.15
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
7.xii.11
; sight record W.T.L.,
8.xii.13
.
Biology
: Imago found April and December to December. Can be attracted to light, it is fully winged and capable of flight.