Craspedophorus angulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Manthen, S. V. & Hegde, V. D., 2018, The genus Craspedophorus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaeinae) from Maharashtra, with a new state record, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 206-206 : 206-

4. Craspedophorus angulatus (Fabricius, 1781)

(Figures, 1, 2)

Material examined: India: Maharashtra-Pune , 1♂, 1♀, Dehu road, coll. B.S. Lamba , 19.vii.1966, Reg. no. Ent- 1/2170; 1♂, Katraj, coll. K. R. Rao , 22.vii.1968, Reg. no Ent-1/2171and 1♀, Pirangut, coll. M. M. Chattarjee ,

18.vi.1970, Reg. no. Ent-1/2172.

Diagnostic characters: Size: male-19.41 mm and female-22.14 mm.

Pronotum almost twice wider than head, lateral rim of pronotum near base very narrow and strongly emarginate, toward mid length not elevated, hind angles obtuse. Black coloured, weakly glossy, elytron with two orange-yellow maculae. Elytron with borders of apical macula unevenly serrate, on 3rd to 6th intervals reaching much farther from apex than on 7th and 8th intervals (so creating perception of two separate maculae). Elytra covered by long setae yellow on maculae and black elsewhere. Males of this species distinctly smaller than females. Size varies from 18-25 mm ( Häckel and Kirschenhofer, 2014).

Distribution: India: Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra (Pune) (Hackel and Kirschenhofe, 2014). Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Myanmar, and China.