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Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) capito Morawitz 1862

Description

Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) capito Morawitz, 1862

(Figs 11–12)

Harpalus capito Morawitz, 1862a: 220. Type locality: "Ussuri", Russia. Pseudoophonus cephalotes Motschulsky, 1861: 3. Type locality: " Japon ".

Type material. Lectotype (present designation) of Harpalus capito: ♂, labeled "Ussuri, 223–1", and "223. capito Mor. " [Morawitz's handwriting] (ZIN).

Additional material examined. More than 380 specimens (161 from China).

Diagnosis. This species is distinctly distinguished from other members of Pseudoophonus by having elytral intervals 1, 3, 5 and 7 with a row of discal pores, and pronotal basal margin not bordered. Ligular sclerite with apical plate and with several dorsal setae. Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs 11–12) without any distinct sclerotized element in the internal sac. Body length 17.3–24.0 mm.

Distribution. China: the north-eastern and eastern parts; known from Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei, Jiangsu, Taiwan (Kataev et al. 2003), Nei Mongol, Shanxi, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Hunan (Hua 2002).

The species is also distributed in the south of the Russian Far East (Amur Province, Khabarovsk Territory and Maritime Province, the south of Sakhalin Island, and Kunashir Island), North and South Korea including Jejudo, and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Sikoku, and Kyushu Islands) (Habu 1973; Lafer 1989; Kryzhanovskij et al. 1995; Kataev 1997; Kataev et al. 2003; Moon & Paik 2006).

Notes

Published as part of Kataev, Boris M. & Liang, Hongbin, 2015, Taxonomic review of Chinese species of ground beetles of the subgenus Pseudoophonus (genus Harpalus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3920 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287886

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Carabidae
Genus
Harpalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Morawitz
Species
capito
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) capito Morawitz, 1862 sec. Kataev & Liang, 2015

References

  • Morawitz, A. (1862 a) Vorlaufige Diagnosen neuer Coleopteren aus Sudost-Sibirien. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg, 5, 231 - 265.
  • Motschulsky, V. (1861) Insectes du Japon. Etudes Entomologiques, 10, 3 - 24.
  • Kataev, B. M., Wrase, D. W. & Ito, N. (2003) Harpalina. In: Lobl, L. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 367 - 397.
  • Hua, L. (2002) List of Chinese Insects. Vol. II. Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University Press, Guangzhou, 612 pp.
  • Habu, A. (1973) Carabidae: Harpalini (Insecta, Coleoptera). Fauna Japonica. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokio, xiii + 430 pp.
  • Lafer, G. Sh. (1989) Fam. Carabidae-The ground-beetles. In: Lehr, P. A. (Ed.), Opredelitel' nasekomykh Dal'nego Vostoka SSSR v shesti tomakh. Tom III. Zhestkokrylye, ili zhuki. Chast' 1. Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 70 - 222. [in Russian]
  • Kryzhanovskij, O. L., Belousov, I. A., Kabak, I. I., Kataev, B. M., Makarov, K. V., Shilenkov, V. G. (1995) A checklist of the groundbeetles of Russia and adjacent lands (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia - Moscow, 272 pp.
  • Kataev, B. M. (1997) Ground beetles of the genus Harpalus (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) from East Asia. Steenstrupia, 23, 123 - 160.
  • Moon, Ch. - S. & Paik, J. - Ch. (2006) Notes on Harpalini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Korea (1 - 3). Korean Journal of Soil Zoology, 11 (1 - 2), 30 - 84.