The genus Alaolacon Candeze, a senior synonym of the genus Eumoeus Candeze (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Agrypninae)
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Arimoto, Koichi
Author
Arimoto, Hisayuki
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Alaolacon murrayi (
Candeze
, 1874)
comb. n.
Figures 55-58
Eumoeus murrayi
Candeze
, 1874: 113 (original description on male; type locality: Madras, India), 214 (as "
Eumaeus murrayi
"; index);
Schwarz 1906
: 40 (catalogue);
Hyslop 1921
: 645 (type species);
Schenkling 1925
: 51 (as "
Eumaeus
"; catalogue);
Fleutiaux 1928
: 178 (comments);
Casari-Chen 1993
: 241 (description on male; examination of holotype; misspelled
Eumaeus murrayi
);
Casari 2008
: 158 (morphological phylogeny of
Hemirhipini
genera; misspelled
Eumaeus murrayi
), 161 (drawing of habitus).
Tharopsides harmandi
Fleutiaux, 1918: 235 (original description on male; type locality: Bangkok, Thailand);
Fleutiaux 1924
: 177 (republish of original description);
Schenkling 1927
: 509 (catalogue of world
Elateridae
);
Fleutiaux 1940
: 40 (record of male from Vietnam);
Fleutiaux 1947
: 307 (as synonymy of
Luzonicus murrayi
(
Candeze
, 1874)).
Luzonicus murrayi
(
Candeze
, 1874):
Fleutiaux 1947
: 307 (change generic status; description).
Type material.
Holotype. Male, Madras, India, Murray leg. [IRSNB] (Fig. 58).
Diagnosis.
Body red-brown, without metallic luster; setae yellow-brown; frontal depression deep; eye large; prothorax shorter than wide, widest posteriorly; pronotum with anterior angles bisinuate, median longitudinal depression not reaching anterior margin or base and impunctate at posterior half; anterior angles of hypomeron acute; prosternal spine inclined strongly behind procoxae; scutellum 1.3
x
as long as wide, with sides straight, widest posteriorly; hind wings without cross vein between veins MP4 and CuA2 and wedge cell; male tergite VIII shorter than wide; median lobe of male aedeagus elongate.
Measurements.
BL: 14.9, BW: 4.85, MIE: 1.43, MAE: 2.85, OI: 50, PL: 4.34, PML: 3.68, PW: 4.64, PI: 94, EL: 10.1, EW: 4.85, EI: 208.
Description.
See
Casari-Chen (1993)
for a detailed description.
Distribution.
India. Thailand. Vietnam.
Remarks.
This species is only known from the male.