Cosmodela barmanica ( Gestro, 1893 ) Klícha & Wiesner, 2021

Klícha, Miroslav & Wiesner, Jürgen, 2021, Taxonomic revision of Cosmodela duponti (Dejean), Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro), new status, and Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux), new status (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), Insecta Mundi 2021 (879), pp. 1-9 : 3-5

2. Cosmodela barmanica ( Gestro, 1893) , new status

Type depository. Lectotype ♂ ( Fig. 2 ) in MNHN.

Type status. Lectotype ♂, designated here. Type labels: “Carin Cheba / 900–1700 m / L. Fea V XII-88 [printed]”; “Duponti / v. barmanica / n / ex. typiques [handwritten]”; “Duponti / N Caie [printed]”; “ LECTOTYPUS / Cosmodela barmanica / ( Gestro, 1893) / ded. Klícha & Wiesner, 2021” [printed, red]; ( Fig. 2 ).

Redescription. Size: Total length (without labrum) 14–17 mm. Habitus less robust than the following species. The dominant colour is bright green predominantly mixed with golden or bright red reflections ( Fig. 8–11 ), the red tone is variable and may change after specimens are dried, as seen by the first author when collecting a series of this species in Myanmar (Yangon Region, Taikkyi-Nyaunggon Hills, 32 ♂♂, 18 ♀♀ and Moon State, Kyaikto, 12 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀). Indian specimens tend to have the green colour prevailing on the sutural band and extension line, as well as on the pronotum and head, while the red tone of those parts is dominant in the specimens from Myanmar and Thailand. However, due to the colour changes in specimens after drying and due to the continuous transition of shades in the population from India to Thailand, we do not consider this feature a reliable distinguishing character. Head: broad, coarsely striate between eyes, forehead with deep wrinkles, clypeus waved in the center, metallic deep bright green with golden and red reflections. Labrum wide with broad carina, black with two wide light–yellow patches in the central part, divided by the carina, with six long white setae. Genae coarsely striate, front part bright green with golden and red reflections, the rear part dark blue, lightly white setose. Pronotum: with shallow wrinkles slightly bevelled backward, the sides visibly rounded in the front part, the base is slightly narrowed; pronotal disc glabrous, proepisterna with few long white bristles. Elytra: parallel, gradually curved at the apical part towards the sutural line, in ♀♀ the curve is slightly waved. The basic colour is satin deep greenish blue. The sutural and marginal bands as well as the base and extension line situated on the first quarter of elytra are bright green with golden up to clear red tones. The marginal bands create a regular line from the base up to the elytral apex, the extension line is fully joint to the marginal band absorbing the first elytral macula. Each elytron has a white humeral dot and three white elytral patches, the first one, located in the extension line is reduced to a dot which is variable, sometimes almost invisible, sometimes creating a small round lunula. The central patch is extended to a longitudinal short strip and the apical one is irregularly rounded. Epipleura green, some specimens with bluish reflections. Ventral aspect: metallic blue green, partly white setose, abdominal sternites black with green and blue reflection legs dark blue with bright green and violet reflections, trochanters metallic black with violet reflections. Aedeagus: size approx. 5 mm ( Fig. 17–18 ), the upper back side of the aedeagus rises slightly bevelled to the top, then descends smoothly to the step in the last third of the aedeagus, behind which it descends gently to a beak-like bend up to the rounded apical end. The lower part goes almost horizontally to the apical end, slightly curved in the center.

Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Mahya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu), Bangladesh, Myanmar, western and central Thailand, Malaysia ( Malacca).

Records. India: Nilgiri Hills , 6 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ( JWWC) ; West Ghats , 1 ♂ ( JWWC) ; Bihar, Palawan Nat. P., 1 ♀ ( JWWC) ; southern India: Shimoga dist. Agumbe Ghat, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( JWWC) ; Mysore State, Shimoga Dist. , Agumbe Ghat, 11 ♂♂, 16 ♀♀ ( JWWC) ; Karnakata state, W. Ghats, 2 ♂♂ ( JWWC) ; Western Ghats Mts , 3 ♀♀ ( OSJC) ; Kerala state, Cardamon Hills, 1 ♂ ( OSJC) ; Cardamon Hills ca 50 km NW of Pathanamthitta, 1 ♀ ( MKPC) ; Cardamon Hills , 15 km SW of Munnar, 1 ♂ ( MKPC) ; Coorg distr. , Virajpet, 1 ♀ ( OSJC) ; Ponmudi Hill resort, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( OSJC) . Myanmar: Shan State, Schweudaung Wildlife Sanct., 1 ♂ ( JWWC) ; Yangon Region, Taikkyi- Nyaunggon Hills , 32 ♂♂, 18 ♀♀ ( MKPC), 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( ZGMC) ; Moon State-Kyaikto 12 ♂♂, 15 ♀♀ ( MKPC), 1 ♂ ( ZGMC), 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ ( JSCP), 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ ( MMPC) . Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, 1 ♀ ( MJOC) 2 ♂♂ ( MJOC) ; Samoeng , 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ ( JWWC) ; Mae Hon Son, 2 ♂♂ ( JWWC), 1 ♀ ( MKPC) ; Mae Hong Son-Ban Huai Po , 1 ♂ ( MKPC) ; Mae Hong Son Pai , 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ ( ZGMC); (erroneously stated Vietnam) Huai Sua Tao , 1 ♂ ( JWWC) ; Chiang Mai, Doi Inthanon , 1 ♀ ( Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 162) .

Remarks. There is one specimen of Cosmodela barmanica in the collection of the second author whose locality label bears confusing data: Vietnam, Th. Huai Sua Tao,11.0– 17.5.1992, leg. Dembicky. We assume that this specimen was collected in Thailand (the abbreviation Th.) as Huai Sua Tao refers to the village in the northern Thailand and the specimen corresponds to the distribution of this species. The first line of the label: Vietnam was probably included with the locality data by mistake as Mr. Dembicky collected a long series of C. duponti in southern Vietnam and used the pre-prepared labels when making a locality label of the above-mentioned specimen. We note this case to avoid confusion in setting up the territorial areas of both species, given that there may be additional incorrectly labeled specimens in different collections.

Figures

Figures 1–3. Habitus of lectotypes and type labels of Cosmodela spec., scale = 5 mm, digital images by Azadeh Taghavian, MNHN. 1) Cosmodela duponti (Dejean, 1826), lectotype ♀. 2) Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro, 1893), lectotype ♂. 3) Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), lectotype ♀.

Figures 8–11. Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro, 1893), habitus, scale = 5 mm. 8) ♂: South India, VI. 2004, Mysore State, 2000 ft, Shimoga Dist., Agumbe Ghat, T. R. S. Nathan coll. (JWWC). 9) ♀: South India, V. 2001, Mysore State, 2000 ft, Shimoga Dist., Agumbe Ghat, T. R. S. Nathan coll. (JWWC). 10) ♂: 4. VI. 2018, Myanmar, Moon State, Kyaikto, road from Bilin to Pyintha, Miroslav Klicha Lgt. (MKPC). 11) ♀: 4. VI. 2018, Myanmar, Moon State, Kyaikto, road from Bilin to Pyintha, Miroslav Klicha Lgt. (MKPC).

Figures 15–19. Left lateral view of aedeagi of Cosmodela spec., scale = 1 mm. 15–16. C. duponti (Dejean, 1826). 15) reddish form, S. Vietnam, 5./6. 1994, Nam Cat Tien, leg. Dembicky and Pacholatko (JWWC). 16) greenish form, Laos south, Attapu prov., Boaven Plateau, 18–30. IV. 1999, 15 km SE of Ban Houaykong, Non Lom (lake) env. N15°02′, E106°35′, alt. 800 m, E. Jendek and & O. Šauša leg. (JWWC). 17–18. barmanica (Gestro, 1893). 17) Greenish form, South India, VI. 2004, Mysore State, 2000 ft, Shimoga Dist., Agumbe Ghat, T. R. S. Nathan coll. (JWWC). 18) Reddish form, 4. VI. 2018, Myanmar, Moon State, Kyaikto, road from Bilin to Pyintha, Miroslav Klicha Lgt. (MKPC). 19) C. indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), NE India, Meghalaya State, W. Garo Hills, Balphakram Nat. Park, 24.–26.V.1996, alt. 100 ± 50 m, GPS N25°11′, E90°52′ (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (JWWC).