The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: The genera of the Cryptobatida group of subtribe Agrina, tribe Lebiini, with new species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
Zootaxa
2004
662
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158702
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158702
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Otoglossa
Chaudoir 1872
Otoglossa
Chaudoir 1872
:158
.
Type
species:
Otoglossa tuberculosa
Chaudoir 1872
:158
(designated by
Reichardt 1964
:49
).
Type
locality:
BRAZIL
, Minas Gerias.
Heraldinium
Liebke, 1927
:101
.
Type
species:
Heraldinium nevermanni
Liebke, 1927
:102
, (original designation). Synonymized by
Reichardt 1964
:49
.
Diagnosis.
(cf. Fig. 23) Form unusual for lebiine carabids: head and pronotum markedly narrow, elytra broad and boxlike with multiple tubercles or calluses on intervals 1–7. Prothorax nearly cylindrical, with very narrow and slightly dentate lateral pronotal bead. Head with large semihemispheric eyes and gradually, yet markedly, constricted neck. Male and female with small vshaped indentation medial on posterior margin of sternum 6. Male endophallus with flagellum, flagellum apically barbed.
Geographic distribution.
The known range of this widespread Neotropical genus extends from
Costa Rica
south into southeastern
Perú
, east to
French Guiana
and south to southeastern
Brasil
(Rio de Janeiro).
Notes.
This genus is now known to contain three species. Amongst the Cryptobatia Group, only male adults of
Otoglossa
and
Pseudotoglossa
have a barbed apex on the flagellum of the endophallus of the male genitalia. Whilst the adults have a very different aspect, it must be noted here that a rigorous phylogenetic analysis may indicate that the two genera should be classified in two subgenera within the genus
Otoglossa
.