A Review of Genus Onycholabis Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini), with Description of a New Species from Western Yunnan, China
Author
Liang, Hongbin
Author
Kavanaugh, David H.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2005
2005-12-31
59
4
507
520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/837.1
journal article
10.1649/837.1
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Genus
Onycholabis
Bates 1873
Type
Species.
Onycholabis sinensis
Bates, 1873:329
(
Sze-Chuen
¼
Sichuan
), by original monotypy
.
Description.
Medium size, body length 9.0–
12.5 mm
(including mandible). Black, except brown in teneral individuals; mandibles, labrum and mentum red-brown, palpi, legs and antennae pale yellow to brown. Microsculpture on head and base and lateral margins of pronotum formed of isodiametric meshes (less distinct on head), on disc of pronotum and elytra formed of transverse meshes. Mandible long, slightly narrow, and straight, with apex sharply pointed and markedly hooked medially (
Fig. 1
); antennae long, extended beyond humerus to about middle of elytra, antennomeres III–XI pubescent, antennomere III about 4 times as long as antennomere II, about 1.7–1.8 times as long as scape; eye large, hemispherical; tempora half as long as longitudinal diameter of eye; anterior and posterior supraobital setae present; frontal fovea deep; vertex slightly convex, glabrous; mentum with prominent, bifid tooth; submentum with 1 long seta and 1 short seta on each side; glossal sclerite with apex slightly rounded, with 2 long setae at subapex; paraglossa membranous, shorter than and fused with glossal sclerite. Pronotum trapezoidal (
Fig. 1
) or cordate (
Fig. 2
), glabrous; basal angle nearly rectangular, with 1 or without seta; basal fovea narrow and deep, rugosely punctate; lateral margin with 1 seta before the middle; prosternal process round at apex, unbordered. Elytra glabrous, shining; striae deep, punctate in basal three-fourths; intervals flat or slightly convex, impunctate, interval III with 2 or 3 setiferous pore punctures; scutellar striole long, scutellar pore puncture present. Legs long and slender; tibia slender, not dilated at apex; tarsomeres with both medial and lateral longitudinal sulci dorsally, tarsomere IV bilobed, tarsomere V asetose ventrally; tarsomeres I–III slightly dilated in male, longer than wide, with adhesive setae on ventral side; claws simple.
Biology.
The adults of all
Onycholabis
species
apparently are hygrophilous. They are often found at night walking on the rocky walls of drainage ditches or along the margins of small streams, on river banks, or in the splash zones of waterfalls.
Geographical Distribution.
Eastern and southeastern Asia; presently known from
India
,
Sikkim
,
Bhutan
, Assam,
Myanmar
,
Laos
,
Vietnam
,
China
,
South Korea
, and
Japan
.