Tricondyla (s. str.) stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864

Matalin, A. V., 2018, New records of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae: Cicindelinae) from Cambodia, Far Eastern Entomologist 356, pp. 9-16 : 10-11

Tricondyla (s. str.) stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864

Figs 1–5

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Cambodia: Cheko , 6.II 1965, leg. K. Yoshikawa (digital pictures of the holotype of Tricondyla cyanipes kambodshensis Mandl, 1970 , ♀ ― ELKU) .

NOTES. Tricondyla cyanipes kambodshensis was described from a single female

(Mandl, 1970: 57). Naviaux (2002) considered it as a synonym of Tricondyla stricticeps

Chaudoir, 1864 ( Figs 3, 5 ). However, he had not revised the type and his opinion was based only on the original description by Mandl (Naviaux, 2002: 37). Having studied some digital pictures of the holotype of T. cyanipes kambodshensis ( Figs 1, 2, 4 ), kindly sent to me by Dr.

Toshiharu Mita, the opinion of Naviaux is confirmed. Yet all checklists of Cambodian tiger beetles refer to T. stricticeps as a species which comes from neither an exact locality nor even a definite province (Cassola, 2005; Wiesner, 2008, 2014). Meanwhile the village (phum in Cambodian) Cheko is situated in the Botum Sakor District of the Koh Kong Province.

female ( ELKU, photos by Toshiharu Mita); 3, 5 – T. stricticeps , male ( Vietnam); 1–3 –

habitus; 4, 5 – head; 1, 4, 5 – dorsal view; 2, 3 – right lateral view.

Figures

Figs 1–5. Tricondyla (s. str.) species: 1, 2, 4 – T. cyanipes kambodshensis, holotype,