Trichotichnus Morawitz, 1863

Kim, Dooyoung & Suh, Sang Jae, 2022, Taxonomic and faunistic notes on the genus Trichotichnus from Korea (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalinae, Harpalini), Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 83804-83804 : 83804

Trichotichnus Morawitz, 1863

Trichotichnus Trichotichnus (Trichotichnus) longitarsis Morawitz, 1863 Morawitz 1863: 63.

Diagnosis

The genus Trichotichnus can be distinguished from other genera by the following characteristics ( Habu 1973, Kataev 2020): frontal impression extending towards margin of eye, mentum with developed tooth and with narrow epilobe, paraglossa glabrous; pronotum without posterior marginal seta; elytra smooth, often iridescent, interval 3 usually with one dorsal setigerous pore on stria 2 and without setigerous pore on intervals 5 and 7, elytral intervals without or with microsculpture consisting of transverse meshes; abdominal sternites mostly without extra setae; protibia with one to four (usually two or three) preapical spines on outer margin, apical spur slender, not dentate, metafemur with two (rarely three) setae on hind margin, male pro- and mesotarsus with ventral biseriate vestiture; median lobe of aedeagus with apical orifice in dorsal position or shifted to left, with or without apical capitulum; hemisternite with one to five setae or small spines apically.