Ophionea nigrofasciata Schmidt-Göbel, 1846

Sudhakar Anagha, V. S. & Sabu, Thomas K., 2024, Additions to the taxonomy of the genus Ophionea Klug, 1821 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) and a new species from India, Zootaxa 5437 (4), pp. 523-536 : 530

Ophionea nigrofasciata Schmidt-Göbel, 1846

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Ophionea nigrofasciata Schmidt-Göbel, 1846: 21 ; Bates, 1892: 380; Bouchard, 1903: 172; Maindron, 1910; Andrewes, 1921a: 161; id. 1923: 4; id. 1929: 310; id. 1930: 242; id. 1931: 437; id. 1937:46; Liebke, 1938: 80; Habu, 1962: 113, 116–118, 126; id. 1967: 33; Baehr, 2003: 59; id. 2005: 192; Park et al., 2006: 98; Lorenz, 2005: 442; Terada & Wu, 2014: 23; Löbl & Löbl, 2017: 634; Raj & Thomas, 2019: 6.

= Casnoidea nigrofasciata (Schmidt-Göbel) : Dupuis, 1913: 270.

= Casnoidea nigrofasciata (Schmidt-Göbel) : Csiki, 1932: 1535; Jedlička, 1963: 499; Baehr, 1996: 1052; Darlington, 1968: 208.

= Ophionea cyanocephala Lacordaire, 1854 [non-Fabricius 1798].

Distribution. India: Meghalaya (Khasi Hills, Patkai Hills); Bangladesh; Myanmar; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Papua New Guinea; Singapore; China; Japan.

Remarks. Ophionea nigrofasciata differs from the closely similar O. bhamoensis by the lack of lateral setae on prothorax and the absence of bluish reflection on the black transverse fascia on the elytral upper surface.

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FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus of Ophionea. (A) O. nigrofasciata Schmidt-Göbel, 1846, holotype; (B) O. interstitialis Schmidt- Göbel, 1846, holotype; (C) Ophionea ceylonica (Baehr,1996), first report from India; (D) O. ceylonica (Baehr,1996), holotype; (E) Lectotype of Ophionea indica [Odacantha cyanocephala (Thunberg, 1784)]; (F) O. bhamoensis bhamoensis (Bates, 1892), cotype.