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Harpalus calceatus

Description

The calceatus species group

Platus Motschulsky, 1844: 197. Type species: Harpalus calcitrapus Motschulsky, 1844 (= H. calceatus Duftschmid, 1812), designated by Noonan (1976: 33).

Pardileus des Gozis, 1882: 289. Type species: Carabus calceatus Duftschmid, 1812, by monotypy. Neopardileus Habu, 1954: 283 (as a subgenus of Ophonus). Type species: Ophonus itoshimanus Habu, 1954 (= H. calceatus Duftschmid, 1812), by original designation.

Diagnosis. Pronotal basal margin bordered (sometimes border interrupted or indistinct medially or laterally). Elytra without row of discal pores on intervals 1, 3, 5 and 7. Protibia with three (rarely two) ventroapical spines arranged in a transverse row. Tarsomere 5 with spines ventrally (in addition to thin setae and hairs) (Fig. 10).

Composition. This species group includes only the Palaearctic H. calceatus.

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 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287886

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Harpalus
Species
calceatus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Motschulsky, V. (1844) Insectes de la Siberie rapportes d'un Voyage fait en 1839 et 1840. Memoires presentes a l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. - Petersbourg par divers savans et lus dans ses assemblees, 5 (1 - 3), xv + 274 pp. + 10 pls.
  • Duftschmid, C. (1812) Fauna Austriae oder Beschreibung der osterreichischen Insekten fur angehende Freunde der Entomologie. 2. Teil. Akademie Buchhandlung, Linz und Leipzig, viii + 311 pp.
  • Noonan, G. R. (1976) Synopsis of the supra-specific taxa of the tribe Harpalini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 12, 3 - 87.
  • Gozis, M. des (1882) Memoire sur les pores setigeres prothoraciques dans la tribu des Carnivores. Mittheilungen der Scweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 6, 285 - 300.
  • Habu, A. (1954) Descriptions of some new Carabid-beetles (Coleoptera) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences (Japan), Series C, 4, 281 - 285.