Pareuryaptus curtulus ( Chaudoir, 1868 )

Fedorenko, D. N., 2024, Notes on Trigonotoma and Pareuryaptus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini) from Vietnam, Russian Entomological Journal 33 (1), pp. 43-71 : 62-64

5. Pareuryaptus curtulus ( Chaudoir, 1868)

Chaudoir, 1868: 160 ( Trigonotoma ; Laos); Tschitschérine, 1900: 162; Dubault et al., 2008: 209; Roux et al., 2016: 72.

MATERIAL. No specimen examined, except for the holotype illustrated [ Roux et al., 2016].

DIAGNOSIS.A medium-sized species with median line of pronotum conspicuous and reaching basal margin, combined with apical two maxillary palpomeres subequally long, mp3L/ mp4L 0.82, and terminal palpomere long subparallel-sided, almost five times as long as wide, mp4L/W 4.8. Pronotum indistinctly sinuate in front of very obtuse and just traceable basal angles. Otherwise hardly different from P. parvus .

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Only known from the type locality. Dubault et al. [2008] also reported two female and one male specimens from Saigon, southern Vietnam.

HABITATS AND HABITS. No data.