Nothoodes angustatus ( Lorenz, 1998 ) Guéorguiev & Liang, 2020

Guéorguiev, Borislav & Liang, Hongbin, 2020, Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental representatives of Lachnocrepis LeConte and Oodes Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with special account on Chinese species, Zootaxa 4850 (1), pp. 1-89 : 69-73

20. Nothoodes angustatus ( Lorenz, 1998) , comb. n.

( Figs 27 A–G, Figs 28 A–F, Table 5)

Oodes angustatus Lorenz, 1998: 305 (replacement name for Oodes parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851 , nec Oodes parallelus Say, 1830 ).

= Oodes parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851: 271 (type locality: ‘ India bor.’). The name is a junior primary homonym of Oodes parallelus Say, 1830 , and a senior primary homonym of Oodes parallelus Motschulsky, 1858 .

References.

Oodes parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère : Gemminger & Harold 1868: 232; Chaudoir 1882: 347–348 (re-description and localities: ‘Hindostan… Deccan… Malacca’); Bates 1892: 323 (similarity with O. cribristernis ); Andrewes 1923: 232 (morphology); Andrewes 1924: 589 (morphology); Andrewes 1928: 170 (distribution in Sri Lanka); Andrewes 1930: 238 (‘Khasi Hills. Saidpur. Dacca. North Kanara. Ceylon: Mamaduwa, Anuradhapura, Hora- wupotana, Rangoon, Palon, Tharrawaddy. Malacca.’); Andrewes 1940: 203 (morphology), 204 (identification key; distribution: ‘ India, Ceylon [ Sri Lanka], Burma [ Myanmar], Malacca’), 205 (comparison with O. longus ); Ali 1967: 17 (comparison with O. basrensis Ali, 1967 ); Saha & Halder 2000:4, 19 (distribution: India).

? Oodes indicus (nomen nudum): Chaudoir 1882: 362.

? Oodes parallelus LaFerté- Sénectère: Bates 1892: 323 (distribution in Myanmar: ‘Palon, Pegu’).

Oodes (Oodes) parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère : Csiki 1931: 1010 (‘Brit. Indien, Ceylon, Birma, Malacca’).

Oodes angustatus: Lorenz 2005: 325 .

Type material. Oodes parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère (see Chaudoir 1882: 348): holotype ♀, ‘Ex Musaeo Chaudoir [w, red print] // parallelus Laferté Indes orient Laferté. [handwritten label pinned on bottom of box]’ (( MNHN, box ‘Collection Chaudoir Carabidae (Lonchost.) (Oodes) Prionognat. Hololius Holcocoleus Sphaerodes Simous Melanodes’)).

Type material. Oodes longus Andrewes : paratype ♂, ‘Pusa Bihar Peries coll [w, p] // Co-type [white rounded label with green band, p] // Oodes longus cotype Andr. H.E.Andrewes det. [w, h/p] // H.E.Andrewes Coll. B.M.1945– 97. [w, p]’ (BMNH). This specimen was part of the type series of O. longus . However, examination proved that it belongs to N. angustatus Lorenz , and not to N. longus Andrewes.

Other material examined. Imprecise localities: 1♀, ‘Bengal May 1809. // Mus. Westerm.’ (ZMUC); 1♀, ‘Bengal Wallich’ (ZMUC); 1♀, ‘Bengala. Mundt’ (ZMUC); 1♀, ‘Bengala. Mus. Calsm.’ (ZMUC); 1♂, ‘Bengale Jungle de Mohrbunj R.P. H. Gengler’ ( MNHN).

NEPAL: Province No. 5: 2♂♂, 1♀, ‘ Nepal Lumbini Zone Siddharthanagar (= Bhairawa), 4.VII.1981, leg. P. Beron’ ( NMNHS); 1♂, 3♀♀, ‘ NEPAL Lumbini Bhairahawa [Siddharthanagar], 9.X.1984 leg. P. Beron’ ( NMNHS); 1♀, ‘ NEPAL, P: Bheri D: Banke, Nepalgunj Hotel Shena, 140mNN 14./ 15.VI.2007, LF 28°02’41”N, 81°37’17”E leg. M. Hartmann’ (NME); 1♀, ‘ NEPAL, Prov. Bheri D: Banke, Nepalganj Hotel Kitchen Hut // 140m NN, N28°04’97” E81°38’56”, on light 23.–25.VI.2011 leg. M. Hartmann #02’ (NME); 1♀, ‘ NEPAL Bheri Zone 8 km NE Nepalgunj 28°05’N 81°40’E, alt. 155 m lgt. Fouqué René, 19.IX.2015 ’ (cPB).

INDIA: Imprecise localities: 1♀, ‘ Oodes India (Deccan) // India or. (Deccan) coll. Castelnau // indicus Chaud. // Oodes indicus Chaud. det., Chaudoir 1882 // Museo Genova coll. Castelnau // sp. citata da Chaudoir 1882 a pag. 362 ma sembra che non ia mai stara descritta R.P. [by Roberto Poggi]’ (MCSN); 1♀, ‘Deccan.’ (( MNHN, box ‘Collection Chaudoir Carabidae (Lonchost.) (Oodes) Prionognat. Hololius Holcocoleus Sphaerodes Simous Melanodes’)); 1♂, 3♀♀, ‘India’ (BMNH); 1♀, ‘Coromandel M. Maindron // Genji 25 août 15 sept. 1901’ ( MNHN, box ‘Collection Générale Oodes ’). B i h a r State: 1♀, ‘Dinapoor // Ex Musaeo Mniszech’ (( MNHN, box ‘Collection Chaudoir Carabidae (Lonchost.) (Oodes) Prionognat. Hololius Holcocoleus Sphaerodes Simous Melanodes’)). Andhra Pradesh State: 1♂, 1♀, ‘ 2010–XI–30 INDIA, Andhra Pradesh, Nellore District, Naidupet mandal, Dwarakapuram vill. Chen C.C. lgt.’ ( IZAS). Karnataka State: 1♀, ‘Kanara.’ ( MNHN); 1♂, 2♀♀, ‘N. Kanara Bombay T.R.D. Bell’ ( MNHN, box ‘ Oodini Chlaeniini , Abacetini & others det. by H.E. Andrewes’; BMNH); 1♂, 3♀♀, ‘ Inde (Bellary) Chaper 1883’ ( MNHN, box ‘Collection Générale Oodes ’).

SRI LANKA: North Central Province: 1♂, ‘Anuradhapura Ceylon W. Horn 1899 // Collection P. Dupuis’ (RBINS). Western Province: 1♂, ‘Horawupotana Ceylon. India 13–X–24’ (BMNH).

MYANMAR: Bago Region: 1♀, ‘Palon (Pegù) L. Fea VIII.IX.87 // Oodes parallelus Laf. ?’ (MCSN); 1♀, ‘Tharrawaddy, Burma. G.Q.Corbet. // Oodes parallelus Laf. Compared with type H.E.A.’ (BMNH). Ay e y a r w a d y Region: 2♀♀, ’ 19–31. V. 2001 BURMA ( MYANMAR) RANGOON—TAIKKYI NYAUNGGON KLÍCHA M. Lgt’ (cDW). Yangon Region: 1♀, ‘ BURMA, Rangoon. F.J. Meggitt.’ (BMNH).

TME: 40 specimens. TGE: 2♂♂, 1♀.

Diagnosis. This species is easily differentiated from its congeners by its large size, 15 mm or more, the specific form of the median lobe ( Figs 28A, B, C, D ), and W/Lp2>1.5.

Description. Habitus. Large-sized specimens (BL: 15.1–16.6 mm, BW: 5.65–6.70 mm), with elongate and moderately convex body ( Figs 27A, G ). Ratios and measurements. See Table 5. Color and luster. Body dorsally black, ventrally dark brown to black, surface markedly shiny, without iridescence. Antennomere 1 and medial parts of antennomeres 2 and 3 piceous, marginal part of last two antennomeres and 4–11 fulvous to rufous. Palpi rufopiceous with extremities paler. Legs rufous to rufopiceous. Punctuation. Dorsal surface without punctuation; proepisternum with dense and shallow punctures, meso- and metepisternum, sides of metasternum and ventrite 1 at base with dense and coarse punctures; abdominal ventrites more or less punctured and wrinkled at sides.

Head. Relatively large, more than half the width of pronotum ( Table 5). Mentum tooth rounded apically, with distinct paramedial border ( Fig. 27B ). Thorax. Pronotum with sides slightly rounded toward posterior angles; maximum width very close to posterior angles; disc without laterobasal impressions; base moderately sinuate. Prosternum with deep median longitudinal sulcus; prosternal process subelongate, bordered laterally and subapically, unbordered at apex ( Fig. 27D ). Metepisternum elongate (MA/MM: 0.84–0.91), its coadunation with epipleuron short, located anteriorly ( Fig. 27E ). Elytra. Apical sinuation slightly distinct. Basal margin distinct laterally, forming a minute denticle at shoulder, disappearing medially at level between striae 2 and 3.Granulation in marginal furrow continuous. Parascutellar striola well developed, long, finely punctate; striae 1–6 less impressed than stria 7. Intervals 1–7 rather flat, interval 8 moderately convex. Legs. Male mesotibia with a swelling in apical two-thirds. Protarsomeres 1–3 of male strongly dilated (W/Lp2: 1.55–1.76). Male genitalia. Median lobe ( Figs 28A, B, C, D ) with basal bulb long, cylindrical, and moderately open dorsally; angle between basal bulb and shaft nearly right; shaft swollen anteriorly (lateral view); apex curved ventrally; apical lamella straight, wide, subtriangular, rounded at tip; ostium long, nearly reaching basal bulb; internal sac with a smaller proximal sclerite situated in medial third and a large, compound distal one in apical half. Female genitalia. Apical gonocoxite stout, sub-triangular, with dorsomedial ensiform seta located equidistant from base and middle and nematiform setae removed from apex ( Fig. 28E ). Bursa copulatrix subconical; spermathecal gland connected at apex of seminal canal ( Fig. 28F ).

Distribution. Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar,? Malaysia (‘Malacca’). According to Andrewes (1930) and Saha & Halder (2000), the species occurs in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), and Karnataka. The record for ‘Malacca’ ( Chaudoir 1882; Andrewes 1930, 1940; Csiki 1931) is highly doubtful (see “Notes”). First record for Nepal.

Bionomics. Nothing is known about the bionomics of N. angustatus .

Notes. Specimen cited as [ Oodes ] indicus by Chaudoir (1882) has been examined and found to belong to N. angustatus (see “Material examined”). The name Oodes indicus is a nomen nudum. We have also studied the material published as ‘? Oodes parallelus ’ by Bates (1892: 323). It is a female specimen representing the species dealt with here. Most likely the citation of the female specimen identified as “ Oodes parallelus LaFerté-Sénectère ” from ‘Malacca’ ( Chaudoir 1882: 348) refers to the holotype of Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882 .

Two specimens collected near Dwarakapuram Village, Andhra Pradesh, India, were collected together with a paratype of O. bharat indicating that the two Nothoodes species live together.

Figures

FIGURE 27. Nothoodes angustatus Lorenz, 1998 (A–F: male specimen, Nepal, Siddharthanagar; G: female specimen, Nepal, 8 km NE Nepalgunj). A, G: habitus (arrow shows position of right basal setiferous puncture of pronotum); B: labium, with emphasis to mentum; C: labium, with emphasis to submentum, seen from the rear (white spots show locations of submental setiferous punctures); D: prosternal process (arrow shows place of disappearance of bordering); E: right metepisternum and metacoxa (arrow shows lateral end of metacoxal basal sulcus); F: abdominal ventrites (III–VI—number of respective ventrites; arrow shows position of ambulatory seta of ventrite III). Scale lines = 2 mm (Figs A, G); = 0.5 mm (Figs B–D); = 1 mm (Figs E–F).

FIGURE 28. Nothoodes angustatus Lorenz, 1998 (A–D: male specimen, “Bengale Jungle de Mohrbunj”; E–F: female specimen, Nepal, Siddharthanagar). A: median lobe of aedeagus, lateral view; B: same, ventral view; C: same, posterior dorsal view; D: same, anterior dorsal view; E: left gonocoxite, ventral view; F: spermathecal complex and gonocoxites, ventral view. Scale lines = 0.5 mm (Figs A–D, F); = 0.2 mm (Fig. E).