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
Subgenus
Caelostomus
Caelostomus
(
Caelostomus
)
picipes
W.S. MacLeay, 1825
Chaudoir (1870, 1872b) lists
Stomonaxus striaticollis
Chaudoir, 1872
(nec
Dejean, 1831
), a junior synonym of this species, from
Hong Kong
.
Straneo (1938)
lists
C. picipes picipes
as occurring in
Hong Kong
.
Material
: 1 ex. W.T.L.,
18.iii.09
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
6.iv.15
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
18.iv.12
; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
7.vii.14
; 3 exx. W.T.,
17.viii.
10
in moist lower level of compost heap; 1 ex. W.T.L.,
14.xi.14
.
Biology
: Imago found March to November. Found in un-natural, moist decomposed vegetable matter of household origin. Can be attracted to light, it is fully winged.