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.