Oxycheila femoralis Laporte de Castelnau, 1833

Wiesner, Jürgen & Bandinelli, Aligi, 2014, Notes on the tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of Argentina. 117. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, Insecta Mundi 2014 (377), pp. 1-66 : 15

21. Oxycheila femoralis Laporte de Castelnau, 1833 ( Fig. 21 )

Oxychila femoralis: Bruch 1911: 147 ; Horn 1926: 80.

Oxycheila femoralis: Wiesner 1992: 53 ; Wiesner 1999: 25-26; Cassola and Pearson 2001: 12; Erwin and Pearson 2008: 36, 37.

Distribution ( Fig. 125 ). Argentina (Buenos Aires, Entre Rios), Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina),? Paraguay, Uruguay.

Records. Entre Rios: Palmar de Colón, A. Vollmer, i.1975, 1 male ; Colón, 15.i.1975, 1 male, 1 female ( JWGC) .

Localities. Buenos Aires: Islas de S. Fernando, i.1976 ( Wiesner 1999: 26). Entre Rios: Liebig, ii.1975 ; Colón, 15.i.1975 ( Wiesner 1999: 26) .

Figures

Figures 15-21. Habitus pictures. All scales = 2mm. 15) Tetracha (Neotetracha) cyanea (Horn, 1905), Argentina, Catamarca, Río Salado, 45 km N Aimogasta, 21.xii.2010, male. 16) Tetracha (Neotetracha) quadrata Naviaux, 2007, Argentina, Salta, San Martin, Tartagal, holotype female. 17) Tetracha (Neotetracha) prolongata (Horn, 1932), Argentina, Salta, Río Blanco, Orán, iii.1992, male. 18) Tetracha (Neotetracha) brevisulcata Horn, 1907, Paraguay, Boqueron, Loma Plata, 18.xii.1992, male. 19) Tetracha (Paratetracha) femoralis rivalieri Naviaux, 2007, Argentina, Misiones, Loreto, ii.1961, female. 20) Oxycheila pinelii Guérin-Méneville, 1843, Argentina, Misiones, Puerto Iguazú, i.1991, male. 21) Oxycheila femoralis Laporte de Castelnau, 1833, Argentina, Palmar de Colon, Entre Rios, i.1975, male.

Figures 123-128. Distribution maps. 123) Tetracha (Paratetracha) femoralis rivalieri Naviaux, 2007. 124) Oxycheila pinelii Guérin-Méneville, 1843. 125) Oxycheila femoralis Laporte de Castelnau, 1833. 126) Oxycheila germaini Fleutiaux, 1893. 127) Oxycheila labiata Brullé, 1837. 128) Oxycheila opacipennis Waterhouse, 1889.