Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) hilaris sobrinus (Dejean, 1826)

Ullah, Mishkat, Naeem, Muhammad, Mahmood, Khalid & Rafi, Muhammad Ather, 2017, Faunistic studies of the tribe Brachinini (Carabidae: Coleoptera) from northern Pakistan, Zootaxa 4232 (2), pp. 173-184 : 180-182

Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) hilaris sobrinus (Dejean, 1826)

Figure 3 (b)

Pheropsophus desbordesi Maindron 1899: 16 (Hrdličlka 2003; Lorenz 2016; Anichtchenko 2016)

Material examined. Punjab, Rawalpindi , Ayub Park , 3 ♀ & 6 ♂, 20.iii.2015, Mishkat ( PMNH) . Chakwal, Dhok Taalian , 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, 08.vi.2009. Asad Ali ( NIM) .

Measurements. Male (n=6): TL= 14.06 mm, HW= 2.80 mm, PL= 2.76 mm, PW= 3.10 mm, EL= 8.20 mm, EW= 2.72 mm. Ratios PL/PW= 0.89, HW/PW= 0.90 and EL/EW= 3.21.

Female (n=6): TL= 15.2 mm, HW= 3.05 mm, PL= 2.8 mm, PW= 3.2 mm, EL= 9.1 mm, EW= 2.7 mm. Ratios PL/PW= 0.87, HW/PW= 0.93 and EL/EW= 3.2

Diagnosis. Head and pronotum yellow to reddish brown, pronotum sometimes with black colored boarder at base and apex. Elytra black, median transverse band yellow and rounded towards suture. Elytra apex with yellow band. Elytral epipleura yellow from mid to apex. Shape and size of median elytral band vary. Legs completely yellow.

Comments. P. (S.) hilaris sobrinus is similar to P. (S.) africanus (Dejean 1825) except for its lighter color (yellowish brown), smaller in size and elytral epipleura pale with fine tubercles, but almost always without visible setae. P. (S.) africanus possesses black elytral epipleura with more or less distinctive seta-bearing tubercles; P. hilaris hilaris is characterised by pale epipleura with fine tubercles, whereas, P. hilaris sobrinus has more or less yellow epipleura. Both subspecies show the epipleura with fine tubercles but always without setae ( Felix et al. 2012).

Distribution. The specimens of this species were collected from Rawalpindi , Chakwal and Peshawar. Previously, it was reported from India ( Andrewes 1930), Poonch Azad Jummu Kashmir ( Rahim et al. 2013), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan ( Anichtchenko 2016) and Yemen ( Felix et al. 2012).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus 3 a, Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) consularis (Schmidt-Goebel) total length 18 mm; 3 b, Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) hilaris sobrinus (Dejean) total length 14.8 mm; 3 c, Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) lineifrons Chaudoir, 1850 total length 15.7 mm; 3 d, Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) lissoderus Chaudoir, 1850 total length 15.6 mm.