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
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1175-5326
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Genus
Cyclosomus
Latreille, 1829
Cyclosomus inustus
Andrewes, 1924
Redtenbacher (1867)
and later
Chaudoir (1876c)
misidentified the
Hong Kong
specimens of this species as
Cyclosomus flexuosus
Fabricius, 1775
.
Andrewes (1921a)
questioned the identification of the
Hong Kong
specimens and after comparing 16
Hong Kong
specimens from various collections described it as a separate species in 1924. In a letter dated
9th June 1951
, John Bowring wrote "I enclose a pair of a species of
Cyclosomus
I met with yesterday morning for the first time. This beetle burrows to some depth in the sand by the sea-shore; it is very active in its movements, and when exposed on the surface disappears beneath the sand with truly wonderful rapidity, diving down head foremost. I captured about twenty specimens by turning up the sand for some distance to the depth of five or six inches." (Anon, 1851). Also listed for
Hong Kong
by
Jedlièka (1963)
and
Bousquet (
2003i
)
.