On five species of the tribes Abacetini and Pterostichini (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
Author
Gueorguiev, Borislav V.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.352.6294
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.352.6294
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Aristochroa
poecilma (Andrewes, 1937)
comb. n.
Feronia poecilma
Andrewes, 1937: 5 (type locality: "S.E. Tibet: Tsangpo Valley, Nyima La, 15,000 feet")
Type material.
Holotype ♀,
"Type"
[typeset, white round label with red margin], "Brit. Mus. 1925-189." [typeset], "S.E.Tibet: Tsangpo Valley, Nyima La. 15,000 22.VI.1924. F. Kingdon Ward." [handwritten], "
Feroniapoecilma
Andr. Type H. E. Andrewes det." [handwritten & typeset] (BMNH, box No 682).
Examined material of other species.
Aristochroa gratiosa
Tchitcherine, 1898, 1♂, with two labels in Chinese and a third one "Qinhai province China" (BMNH, box No 682);
Aristochroa
sp., 2♀♀, (BMNH, box No 682). The last two specimens with label "E. Tibet:
Pochoe
. 12-16,000 ft. 18-20.vii.1936", and one of them with second label "
Feroniapoecilma
Andr. Type H. E. Andrewes det.".
Remarks.
The study of the
Andrewes's
type has proved that it belongs to the subtribe
Trigonognathina
Tschitscherine
, 1898, which includes
Aristochroa
Tschitscherine
, 1898,
Myas
Sturm, 1826 (incl.
Trigonognatha
Motschulsky, 1858),
Steropanus
Fairmaire, 1888, and
Xenion
Tschitscherine
, 1902. The presence of the following set of characters: 1/ anterior margin of ligula with four or more setae; 2/ elytra with intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 wider, more or less distinctly raised and differently colored than the other intervals; 3/ terminal segment of both the maxillary and labial palpi not enlarged, revealed that the only specimen of this taxon belongs to
Aristochroa
.
The holotype of
Aristochroa poecilma
was found at Nyima La, a high-mountain passage in the Nyingchi Prefecture, the southeastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.