Catalogue and Bibliography of the Hong Kong Carabidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Adephaga), with notes on the historic boundaries of Hong Kong as related to zoological collections
Author
Aston, Paul
text
Zootaxa
2016
4121
3
201
257
journal article
38912
10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.1
6cb37831-da16-4763-a32c-aef636512990
1175-5326
265007
172021D4-55C8-483F-A6B2-F823C3022F90
Subgenus
Desarmatocillenus
Netolitzky, 1942
Bembidion (Desarmatocillenus) foochowense
Lindroth, 1980
New record for
Hong Kong
. The aedeagus of this form is identical to that of
B. foochowense
, and shares with that species several other characters (Luca Toledano, pers. comm), but is paler in colouration. This is the first record of this very distinctive group of the genus in
Hong Kong
. Specimens were identified by Luca Toledano.
Lindroth (1980)
originally described this species from Fujian Province and has since been found in
Taiwan
(
Toledano 2009
)
Material
: 1 ex. W.T.L.,
9.v.06
; 1 ex. W.T.,
June 2011
.
Biology
: Imago found May to June. Species of this genus are renowned for living in the inter-tidal zone, especially at the sandy mouths of rivers. Fully winged.