Description of Kashmirobroscus gen. nov. with two new species from the Northwest Himalaya, and remarks on the East Asian genus Eobroscus Kryzhanovskij, 1951 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)
Author
Schmidt, Joachim
Lindenstrasse 31, 18211 Admannshagen, Germany;
Author
Wrase, David W.
Dunckerstrasse 78, 10437 Berlin, Germany;
Author
Sciaky, Riccardo
Via Fiamma 13, 20129 Milano, Italy
text
Journal of Natural History
2013
J. Nat. Hist.
2013-09-03
47
41 - 42
2671
2689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.791952
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Kashmirobroscus mirabilis
sp. nov.
(
Figures 2A
,
3C
,
4K
)
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Type material
Holotype
:
Female
, with label data “N
Pakistan
,
NW Frontier Prov.
,
Kaghan Valley
,
2500–3500 m
,
Naran SE env
.,
26–27.VII.1998
, leg.
Kalab
” (
cSCI
).
Etymology
The epithet is derived from the Latin adjective
mirabilis
(= admirable) and indicates the exceptional nature of some features of this species.
Description
Habitus see
Figure 2A
.
Body length:
13.6 mm
.
Head: Vertex with transverse impression deep in middle, shallow on sides (
Figure 3C
). Antennae remarkably long with ninth antennomere extended to pronotal base (
Figure 2A
); PL
/
A3L 4.0.
Pronotum: PW
/
HW 1.13; PW
/
PL 1.06; PW
/
PBW 1.57; PAW
/
PBW 1.17. Lateral margin with three setae each side in apical half.
Elytra: EW
4.95 mm
; EL
/
EW 1.61; EW
/
PW 1.60.
Abdomen: Last abdominal sternite apically with two setae each side (female!).
Legs: Tarsomere 5 on ventral side usually with one pair of setae behind middle, however, on left hind leg an additional ventral seta is situated in middle of tarsomere 5.
Differential diagnosis
This species differs from
Kashmirobroscus ortrudae
sp. nov.
by the slender antennae with ninth antennomere extended to pronotal base (
Figure 2A
) and by having transverse impression on vertex without a pit in middle (
Figure 3C
).
Geographical distribution
Northwest Himalaya of
Pakistan
, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (
Figure 7
): probably endemic to the higher parts of the Kaghan Valley.
Habitat
Unknown.