Addition to the knowledge of Tribe Chlaeniini Brullé, 1834 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Pakistan
Author
Ullah, Mishkat
Insects Division, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
Author
Naeem, Muhammad
0000-0002-2025-2024
muhammad. naeem @ uaar. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2025 - 2024
muhammad.naeem@uaar.edu.pk
Author
Mahmood, Khalid
0000-0001-7162-3430
dkmahmood @ msn. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7162 - 3430
dkmahmood@msn.com
Author
Garner, Beulah
0000-0002-5229-2450
Insects Division, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom. & b. garner @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5229 - 2450
b.garner@nhm.ac.uk
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-16
5115
4
451
486
journal article
20208
10.11646/zootaxa.5115.4.1
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1175-5326
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Chlaenius
(
Pseudochlaeniellus
)
celer
Chaudoir, 1876
(
Fig. 9a
)
Chlaenius celer
Chaudoir, 1876: 264
;
Chlaenius caudatus
Landin, 1955: 451
;
Chlaenius indochinensis
Mandl, 1978: 273
.
Material examined.
PAKISTAN
•
1 ♀
;
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
,
Dera Ismail Khan
;
12 Sep. 1988
;
Dr. Muhammad Afzal
leg.;
Chlaenius (Pseudochlaeniellus) celer
Chaudoir
by
Mishkat Ullah
2017 det.;
PMNH
•
2 ♀
; same collection data as for preceding;
11 Sep. 1988
;
PMNH
.
Measurements.
Female (n=3): TL=
9.21 mm
, HW=
1.71 mm
, PL=
2.07 mm
, PW=
2.89 mm
, EL=
5.36 mm
, EW=
1.80 mm
. Ratios PL/PW= 0.71, HW/PW= 0.59 and EL/EW= 2.97.
No male specimens were studied / available for study.
Diagnosis.
Head black with metallic greenish blue coloration; clypeus smooth, frons densely setiferous punctate, neck smooth. Mandibles dark brown, Labrum, palpomeres, antenna, pronotum lateral bead, elytral border and legs reddish brown. Pronotum colour same as head, almost shell shaped, basal margin broad, apical margin convex, maximum width near midpoint and sinuate basal margin; postero-lateral angles obtuse; surface sparsely to densely covered with wide-deep punctures from apical to basal margin. Elytra matt black with greenish blue tinge, striae deep and punctate; intervals slightly raised, granulated, densely setiferous punctate (seta colour yellowish grey), microsculpture isodiametrical.
Comments.
Ch.
(
P.
)
celer
looks similar to
Ch.
(
P.
)
contractus
Chaudoir,
1876
in body colouration and general appearance. It differes on the basis of being smaller in size and mentum tooth simple whereas
Ch.
(
P.
)
contractus
is bigger in size and mentum tooth bifid. In this current study, it was reported only from Dera Ismail Khan. This species is widely distributed from
Pakistan
to
Myanmar
. It is newly recorded from
Pakistan
.
Distribution.
Myanmar
(
Burma
),
Vietnam
,
India
,
Bangladesh
(Anichtchenko 2017;
Lorenz 2018
) and
Pakistan
(first country record).