Chinese species of the genus Tricondyla Latreille, 1822 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) and a new record for the country Author Xiong, Xinxin Specimen Museum, Southwest Forestry University No. 300 Bai Long Si, Kunming, Yunnan, China Author Wiesner, Jürgen Dresdener Ring 11 D- 38444 Wolfsburg, Germany text Insecta Mundi 2023 2023-09-29 2023 8 1 9 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.10134379 1942-1354 10134379 E6D1CE86-8AC8-4934-9D1B-7EE385D25309 4. Tricondyla stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864 ( Fig. 13, 14 , 29, 30 ) 窄头缺翅虎甲 zhǎi tóu quē chì hǔ jiǎ Listings. Wiesner 1992: 19 , Naviaux 2002: 37 , Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 118 , Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 26 , Shook and Wiesner 2006: 21 , Wu and Shook 2010: 89 , Wu 2011: 32 , Aston 2016: 214 , Wiesner and Geiser 2016: 62 , Putchkov and Matalin 2017: 249 , Wiesner et al. 2017: 5 , Wiesner 2020: 37 . Diagnosis. Black, moderately elongated; head medium in size, very short with the temples particularly abrupt in shape and strongly humped; labrum small; mandibles short; pronotum long, smooth; medial lobe oval-shaped, the collum gradually rounded, very convex from lateral view; notopleural sutures obviously marked; elytra narrow near the base, obviously widened posteriorly, the maximum placed at 3/4 of the length; gibbosity strongly marked; sculpture deep and granular in the basal quarter, arranged in short wrinkles in the second quarter, reduced to decreasing independent pits towards the apex; aedeagus thin, regularly curved. Distribution. China (? Hong Kong ), Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Thailand .