Re-definition and review of the Oriental genus Hexachaetus Chaudoir, 1871 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Orthogoniini)
Author
Tian, Mingyi
Author
Deuve, Thierry
text
Zootaxa
2016
4169
3
540
554
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4169.3.7
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1175-5326
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Hexachaetus prodigus
Tian & Deuve, 2006
(
Figure 10
)
Tian & Deuve, 2006
: 150
Length: 16.0 mm; width:
6.5 mm
. Habitus as in
Fig. 10
.
Diagnosis.
Head and mandibles black, disc of pronotum, underside of head dark brown, other parts of the body red brown; glabrous species, strongly shiny; microsculptural engraved meshes indistinct on head and pronotum, obscurely isodiametric on elytra; head stout, as long as wide, labrum straight at front; ligula short and wide, 6- setose at apex, with median two longer than other; pronotum transverse, PW/PL=1.60, widest at about middle; lateral expanded margin narrow, not reflexed; elytra elongate-ovate, EL/EW=1.46, base well-bordered, parallelsided, apical margin gently and obliquely truncated, denticulate at the tip; fore tibia stout, with outer angle remarkably rectangular; middle and hind coxae glabrous in median portion, hind tarsomeres 1 longer than 2, while 3 as long as 4.
Male: Unknown.
Material examined.
1 female
, the
holotype
, “
Dalat
,
Annam
, III-IV, 1924” and “R. I. SC.
Nat. Belg., I. G.
16.500”, in
IRSNB
;
1 female
, “
Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B
/
Vietnam
:
Dong Nai
Biosphere, 11°18 N, 107°06 E /
25. VI.
6. VII. 2012
, nigh collecting, leg.
J Constant
&
J. Bresseel
/ I. G.: 32.161”, in
IRSNB
.
Distribution.
Vietnam
(
Fig. 20
h).