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
Tachylopha
Motschulsky, 1862
Tachyura
(
Tachylopha
)
ovata
(
Motchulsky, 1851
)
Schaum described a junior synonym of this species
Tachyura albicornis
Schaum, 1860
from a specimen collected by Bowring in
Hong Kong
. Also listed for
Hong Kong
by
Gemminger & Harold (1868)
,
Andrewes (1919a)
and
Kopecky (2003)
.
Andrewes (1928)
draws attention to a specimen in Motschulsky's collection, originating from Bowring and dated
7.xii.51
, bearing a double sided label, on one side (not in Motschulsky's handwriting "
Tachys albicornis
Schaum
,
Hong Kong
" and on the other probably in Chaudoir’s writing "
Bemb
callipygum
Chaud".
Material:
1 ex.
Hong Kong
, Lam Tsuen valley,
2.i.12
, (leg. Jason Maté); 1 ex. W.T.L.,
31.v.15
; 2 exx. W.T.L.,
24.vi.15
.
Biology
: Imago found January and May to June.
Andrewes & Scott (1924)
commented it was found under stones in
Macao
, though the only recent
Hong Kong
record from a habitat was found on the grassy bottom of a narrow, shallow drainage ditch. Can be attracted to light.