Orthogonius MacLeay 1825
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Genus Orthogonius MacLeay, 1825
Orthogonius alternans Wiedemann 1823
Hill (1982) and Hua (2002) list this species as occurring in Hong Kong but not by Bousquet (2003d).
Orthogonius xanthomerus Redtenbacher, 1867
This species was described from specimens collected by Ritter von Frauenfeld in Hong Kong. It was also collected by both Champion and Bowring prior to 1855. This is likely to be the species Bowring mentions in a 1855 letter to Adam White (Anon 1855). "the other day I got my first specimen of the only beetle in poor Champion's collection, which I did not possess when he left China, an Orthogonius; I don't know whether it has been described." Gemminger & Harold (1868), Chaudoir (1871b), Andrewes (1924) and Bousquet (2003d) also list this species for Hong Kong.
Orthogonius sp.
A number of specimens were quite different from O. xanthomerus. According to Mingyi Tian (pers. comm.) their genital structures are somewhat intermediate between several species from China and southeast Asia. Material: 1 ex. Hong Kong, Lantau, Pui O, 18.iv.14, under stone in wooded area; 1 ex. Hong Kong Lanau, Tung Fuk, 22.iv.10, flew into bus (Leg. Elme Aston); 1 ex. Hong Kong, Ng Tung Chai, 4.v.10; 1 ex. Hong Kong, Pak Sha O, 24.v.15 – 07.vi.15, Malaise Trap (Leg. C.Barthelemy). Biology: Imago found April to May. Is fully winged and capable of flight.
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- Scientific name authorship
- MacLeay
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Carabidae
- Genus
- Orthogonius
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orthogonius MacLeay, 1825 sec. Aston, 2016
References
- MacLeay, W. S. (1825) Annulosa Javanica, or, An attempt to Illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M. D. F. L. & G. S. and deposited by him in the museum of the honourable East - india Company. Number 1. Parbury and Allen, Kingsbury, London, 150 pp.
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1823) Zweihundert neue Kafer von Java, Bengalen und dem Vorgebirge der guten Hoffnung. Zoologisches Magazin, 2, 1 - 135, 162 - 164.
- Hua, L. Z. (2002) List of Chinese Insects. 2. Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University Press, Guangzhou, 612 pp.
- Bousquet, Y. (2003 d) Orthogoniini Schaum 1857 (Subfamily Harpalinae). In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 446.
- Redtenbacher, L. (1867) Zoologischer Teil. Zweiter Band I. Abtheilung A. 1. Coleoptera. In: Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter der befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf- Urbair. Karl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, 249 pp.
- Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von (1868) Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom 1. Cicindelidae - Carabidae. E. H. Gummi, Monachii, 424 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089
- Chaudoir, M. de (1871 b) Essai Monographiique sur les Orthogoniens. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 14, 95 - 130