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
Myriochila
Myriochila
(
Myriochila
)
specularis specularis
(
Chaudoir, 1865
)
Chaudoir (1865)
,
Schilder (1911)
,
Horn (1930)
,
Mandl (1981)
and
Wiesner (1992)
list this species for
Hong Kong
. Chevrolat described
Myriochila speculifera
(Chevrolat)
a junior synonym of this species from the environs of
Macao
, while
Cassola (1991)
,
Schilder (1911)
,
Hua (2002)
,
Puchkov & Matalin (2003)
,
Sawada & Wiesner (2004)
and
Shook & Wiesner (2006)
list
M. speculifera
for
Hong Kong
. John Bowring wrote in a letter dated
2nd June 1851
"Among my most recent captures are my
Cicindela speculifera
, now out, and of which I took fifteen specimens yesterday, also a few of the three other species of which I sent specimens to the British Museum last year." (Anon 1851).
Chen
et al.
(2002)
list
Cicindela specularis
Chaudoir.
Material
: Ƌ.
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Shap Long,
14.v.07
Shap Long, Lantau; 1 ex. and Ƌ.
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Shap Long
14.v.07
; 1 ex.
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Pui O,
20.v.06
(Several hundred seen); 1 ex.
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Pui O,
25.v.07
Pui O; Sight record
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Pui O,
27.v.06
; 1 ex.
6.vi.15
Hong Kong
, Lantau, Pui O, on muddy edge of Buffalo wallah, up to 20 others seen at same wallah, when the Water Buffalo went in the water, it caused a wave which killed at least 2 of this species.
Biology
: Imago found May to June. It can be found in high densities (up to about 60 per m2 have been counted by the author) around muddy pools of fresh or saline water. Fully winged and readily fies.
Myriochila
(
Myriochile
)
sinica
(
Fleutiaux, 1889
)
Fleutiaux 1889
described this species from Saigon (now Ho Chi Min City)
Vietnam
.
Dover & Ribeiro (1923)
,
Horn (1930)
,
Wiesner (1992)
,
Hua (2002)
,
Puchkov & Matalin (2003)
,
Sawada & Wiesner (2004)
,
Shook & Wiesner (2006)
and
Wiesner (2013b)
list this species for
Hong Kong
.