Epikastea Liebke 1936

Erwin, Terry L., 2004, The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: The genus Epikastea Liebke of the Plochonida Group, with new Neotropical species and notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera, Lebiini, Agrina), Zootaxa 790, pp. 1-20 : 6

Epikastea Liebke 1936

Epikastea Liebke 1936:125 . Type species: Epikastea limonae Liebke 1936:125 , original monotypy. Type locality: See below.

Diagnosis. (cf. Figs. 1 –6). Head, prothorax, and venter rufescent, elytra dark with pale apical pattern, or in one species concolorous. Head robust, mandible robust, scrobe large, lower margin markedly flanged. Labial palpomere 4 slightly depressed, subequal in size to that of maxillary palpomere 4. Antennae short, barely extended to level of humerus, antennomere 4 pubescent in apical two­thirds. Tarsomere 4 markedly bilobed; males with adhesive setae on front (1–4), middle (1–4) and posterior (3–4) tarsomeres.

Geographic distribution. Known from Costa Rica, Ecuador and Perú.

Notes. The known altitudinal range of these species is between sea level and 350m. These arboreal beetles have been repeatedly collected with fogging techniques. Nevermann collected his two specimens on fallen and rotting dead tree trunks.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Epikastea biolat Erwin n. sp., FIGURE 2. Epikastea grace Erwin n. sp., male, dorsal aspect, specimen # ADP 100400. female, dorsal aspect, specimen # ADP 0093805.