Ophionea indica
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Description
Ophionea (s. str.) indica (Thunberg, 1784)
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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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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