Taxonomic review of Chinese species of ground beetles of the subgenus Pseudoophonus (genus Harpalus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Kataev, Boris M.
Author
Liang, Hongbin
text
Zootaxa
2015
3920
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3920.1.1
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1175-5326
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The
calceatus
species group
Platus
Motschulsky, 1844
: 197
.
Type
species:
Harpalus calcitrapus
Motschulsky, 1844
(=
H. calceatus
Duftschmid, 1812
), designated by
Noonan (1976: 33)
.
Pardileus
des
Gozis, 1882
: 289.
Type
species:
Carabus calceatus
Duftschmid, 1812
, by monotypy.
Neopardileus
Habu, 1954
: 283
(as a subgenus of
Ophonus
).
Type
species:
Ophonus itoshimanus
Habu, 1954
(=
H. calceatus
Duftschmid, 1812
), by original designation.
Diagnosis
. Pronotal basal margin bordered (sometimes border interrupted or indistinct medially or laterally). Elytra without row of discal pores on intervals 1, 3, 5 and 7. Protibia with three (rarely two) ventroapical spines arranged in a transverse row. Tarsomere 5 with spines ventrally (in addition to thin setae and hairs) (Fig. 10).
Composition
. This species group includes only the Palaearctic
H. calceatus
.