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Ophionea indica

Description

Ophionea (s. str.) indica (Thunberg, 1784)

Figure 14

Attelabus indicus Thunberg, 1784: 68. Loc. Typ.: India.

Cicindela cyanocephala Fabricius, 1798: 60. Loc. Typ.: India Or.

Distribution. Cambodia, China (Fujian; Yunnan), Indonesia (Maluku Isl., Sulawesi), India (Tamil Nadu; Uttarakhand), Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines (?), Australia (introduced).

Systematic notes: This species has a very wide distribution in southeast Asia and may have been introduced in Australia. The first mention we have that it is present in the Philippines is in the paper by Baehr (1996: 1080). However, there is no mention of O. indica when redescribing the species, nor its locality, and its presence is only briefly mentioned in the final conclusions. A subsequent suggestion is made by Anagha and Sabu (2024), but it is almost certainly taken from Baehr’s paper. We have not seen material of this species from the Philippines and remain doubtful about its presence in these islands.

Notes

Published as part of Anichtchenko, Alexander & Sciaky, Riccardo, 2024, Contribution to the knowledge of the Philippines species of the tribe Odacanthini Laporte, 1834 (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 328-344 in Zootaxa 5493 (4) on page 339, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13330255

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Carabidae
Genus
Ophionea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Thunberg
Species
indica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ophionea indica (Thunberg, 1784) sec. Anichtchenko & Sciaky, 2024

References

  • Baehr, M. (1996) The ground beetle genus Casnoidea Castelnau, Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Odacanthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 10, 1041 - 1084. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9961041
  • Anagha, V. S. S. & Sabu, T. K. (2024) Additions to the taxonomy of the genus Ophionea Klug, 1821 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) and new species from India. Zootaxa, 5437 (4), 523 - 536. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5437.4.5