Re-definition and review of the Oriental genus Hexachaetus Chaudoir, 1871 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Orthogoniini)
Author
Tian, Mingyi
Author
Deuve, Thierry
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4169.3.7
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Hexachaetus lateralis lateralis
(Guérin), 1843
(
Figure 1
)
Orthogonius lateralis
: Guérin, in
Delessert, 1843
: 35
Hexachaetus lateralis
(Guérin)
:
Chaudoir, 1871
: 125
;
Csiki, 1932
: 1592
Length: 17.0–18.0 mm; width: 7.0 mm. Habitus as in
Fig. 1
.
Diagnosis.
Large sized; head, pronotum, underside of head, metepimeron, tibiae and tarsi of legs, antennae and margins of elytra dark brown, majority part of elytra, underside, femora and coxae of legs, palps yellowish brown; elytral marking from base to apex along suture, anchoreaform, widest at base, then gradually contracted backwards, wider at middle, then trapped towards apex; strongly shiny, glabrous on disc, without wrinkle or puncture, palps normally subcylindrical, ligula wide, 6-setose; antennae short, extending only at shoulders of elytra; pronotum with lateral expanded margin glabrous and smooth, border unclear, slightly reflexed; elytra elongate-ovate, apex concavely truncated, outer angle distinct; elytral intervals 3 with two setiferous pores, located near base (close to stria 3) and subapex (closed to stria 2) respectively; fore tibia stout, outer apical angle distinct, somewhat rectangular; hind tibial spurs long and sharp, claws pectinate, hind tarsomere 4 bilobed; prosternal process unbordered at apex, abdominal ventrite VII slightly emarginated in median portion of apical margin in male; male genitalia very similar to that of
H. lateralis maindroni
(
Figs. 3–4
).
Material.
1 male
, “
Sumatra
(
Aceh
),
Ketambe
, Leuser Nat. Park,
450 m
,
26. II-
1, III, 1991,
Bocák
&
Bocáková
leg.”, in
NHMB
;
1 female
, “
Malacca
, Coll. Castelnau”, “
Museo Civico di Genova
”, “
Hexachaetus lateralis
Guérin, H. E. Andrewes
det.”, in
MCG
; 1 female, “Collection P. Dupuis”, “
Hexachaetus lateralis
Det. P. Dupuis, 1914
”, in IRSNB.
Distribution.
Malaysia
and
Indonesia
(
Fig. 20
a).