Re-definition and review of the Oriental genus Hexachaetus Chaudoir, 1871 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Orthogoniini)
Author
Tian, Mingyi
Author
Deuve, Thierry
text
Zootaxa
2016
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540
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4169.3.7
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Hexachaetus lateralis maindroni
Tian et Deuve, 2006
,
n. stat.
(
Figures 2–4
)
Hexachaetus maindroni
Tian & Deuve, 2006
: 149
Length: 19.0 mm; width: 8.0 mm. Habitus as in
Fig. 2
.
Diagnosis.
Large sized, polish, glabrous and shiny species; head, pronotum, side margin of elytra, whole apical margin of abdominal ventrite VII, tibiae and tarsi of legs dark brown, underside, femora and coxae yellowish brown; elytral marking narrow, not anchoreaform; labial palpomere 3 glabrous, slightly shorter than palpomere 2; labial palpomere 2 bisetose on inner margin, and with two more shorter setae near apex; maxillary palpomere 3 longer than 4; the median lobe of aedeagus stout, dramatically constricted at apex in profile; lamella broadly and extraordinary dilated in lateral aspect (
Figs. 3–4
).
Remarks.
Similar to
H. lateralis lateralis
not only on appearance, but also on genital structure. However, it is slightly larger than
H. lateralis
, elytra marking narrower at middle, extending only to intervals 2 (to intervals
3 in
H. lateralis
), and inner apical angle of elytra blunter than in
H. lateralis lateralis
.
Material.
1 male
, the
holotype
, “
Borneo
,
Sarawak
,
Kuching
”, “
16 Oct. 1894
”, “
Hexachaetus maindroni
n. sp.
det.
Tian
&
Deuve
, 2004
”, “
Hexachaetus laeviceps
M.”(det.
Maindron M.
), “
Museum Paris
”, and “
Ex Coll. M.
Maindron”, in
MNHN
.
Distribution.
Malaysia
(
Fig. 20
b).