Revision of the Mexican subgenus Carabomimus Kolbe, 1895 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Calosoma Weber, 1801): C. depressicolle, C. flohri and C. digueti species groups
Author
Häckel, Martin
Author
Heinz, Walter
Author
Sehnal, Rostislav
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Zootaxa
2011
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10.5281/zenodo.206457
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The
Calosoma depressicolle
complex (=
Carabomimus depressicollis
Chaudoir, 1869
sensu
Jeannel, 1940
)
This complex is characterised by a posteriorly narrowed pronotum; hind angles extending distinctly beyond basal line; antennae longer, always reaching beyond humeri. Elytra with irregular, scattered punctures and dimples; striae slightly confused. The complex contains two species groups:
C. depressicolle
group. It includes
Calosoma depressicolle
,
C. altipeta
and
C. sylvestre
.
C. flohri
group. It includes
Calosoma flohri
and
C. lesnei
.
Taxa of the first species group are distributed from eastern Michoacán to western Puebla, whereas members of the
flohri
group are distributed from Colima and Jalisco to east-central Michoacán.
Other species groups in the subgenus
Carabomimus
from central
México
are:
C
.
digueti
(
Lapouge, 1924
)
,
C
.
politum
(includes
C
.
cicatricosum
Chaudoir, 1869
,
C
.
diminutum
Bates, 1891
,
C
.
morelianum
Bates, 1891
,
C
.
politum
Chaudoir, 1869
),
C
.
striatulum
(includes
C
.
costipenne
Chaudoir, 1869
,
C
.
laevigatum laevigatum
Chaudoir, 1869
,
C
.
laevigatum hogei
Breuning, 1928
,
C
.
orizabae
(
Jeannel, 1940
)
,
C
.
striatipenne
Chaudoir, 1869
,
C
.
striatulum striatulum
Chevrolat, 1835
,
C
.
striatulum libresense
Lassalle, 2009
).
Calosoma bulleri
Beheim & Breuning, 1943
remains as species incertae sedis. It was originally placed in the subgenus
Blaptosoma
Géhin, 1876
but
Gidaspow (1959)
re-assigned it to the subgenus
Carabomimus
on the basis of pronotal shape. We have not seen either the
type
(female) or any other individual in the recently collected material. Therefore, we follow
Gidaspow (1959)
and leave the species in the subgenus
Carabomimus
as incertae sedis.