Velinda lirata Andrewes, 1921

Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2019, New Synonymy, Combinations And Country Records In Carabidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera), Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 19 (1), pp. 9-12 : 10

Velinda lirata Andrewes, 1921

= Imasakaia kidoi Arai & Morita, 2010 syn. nov.

Velinda is a rarely collected and extremely enigmatic taxon, originally described from Barkuda Island, situated on Chilika Lake in Odisha state (E India) with a very peculiar assemblage of characteristics. In 1921, Andrewes described a new genus and species Velinda lirata which he hesitantly placed in Dromiini, then genus was tentatively transferred to Singilini by Jeannel (1949) and finally to Lichnasthenina ( Mateu, 1963; Basilewsky, 1984). He noted the absence of the elytral plica and the expanded mesotarsi, suggesting this could place the species near some Platynini, but added that he knew of no particular genus that would be fitting. He recognized that it deviates from Pediomorphus species in the relative size of the head, paramedial setigerous pores of the pronotum, and in the odd-numbered elytral intervals having setae. Imasakaia kidoi was described by Arai & Morita (2010) from Japan, as a representative of the subtribe Dromiina . In fact, this taxon should be considered a synonym of Velinda lirata , a species of the subtribe Lichnasthenina . No sufficient morphological differences were observed between both species, based on detailed descriptions. Here is recorded for Japan for the first time.