Revision of the Oriental Genus Physodera Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Physoderina), with the descriptions of two new species
Author
Ma, Yunlong
Author
Shi, Hongliang
Author
Liang, Hongbin
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Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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Physodera eburata
Heller, 1923
Fig. 17
.
Heller 1923
: 304 (Original:
Physodera
; type locality: Los Banos (Luzon); lectotype deposited in SNSD);
Csiki 1932
: 1347 (catalogue);
Jedlička 1963
: 301;
Shi
et al.
2013
: 41.
Material examined. Lectotype
of
Physodera eburata
Heller
, designated herein (SNSD), a female, "Los Banos / P.I. Baker"; "
eburata
/ Typus" [red label]; "1920 / 3" [yellow label]; "Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde, Dresden". (
Figs. 5
,
17
);
1 female
(
SNSD
), "
Samar
Borongan, coll.
W.Schultze
"; "
Coll. W.
Schultze,
Ankauf
1942"; "
Staatl. Museum
für
Tierkunde
,
Dresden
".
Diagnosis.
Body length
10.1–11.5 mm
. Dorsal side black with metallic purple hue; pronotum
unicolor
; elytra with a pair of ivory callosities on disc, callosity about 1/4 as elytron in length, placed in the middle of elytron, round in shape, strongly notched posteriorly. Tergum and sternum VII without distinct pattern. Antennameres 5–11 distinctly widened and flattened. Elytral third interval with two setigerous pores, the fifth with only one pore near base; apical margin truncated.
Together with
P. bifenestrata
and
P. sciakyi
sp. n.
,
P. eburata
can be readily distinguished from other species of
Physodera
by the presence of ivory callosities on elytra. These three species have differences in the shape of elytra callosities (round with a notch in
P. eburata
, and without a notch in
P. bifenestrata
and
P. sciakyi
sp. n.
) and different distributions.
Male genitalia.
Unknown.
Female genitalia.
Not studied.
Distribution.
Only known from the
Philippines
(Luzon,
Samar
). (
Fig. 65
)
Remarks.
In the original literature,
Heller (1923)
indicated that this species has elytra dull in apical part, and shining in
P. bifenestrata
. However, after examined a "normal" specimen in the collection of SNSD, we found that the dull elytra of the lectotype is caused by deformation when emergence, and not a taxonomical character.