Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) pseudohauserianus Kataev, 2001

Kataev, Boris M. & Liang, Hongbin, 2015, Taxonomic review of Chinese species of ground beetles of the subgenus Pseudoophonus (genus Harpalus) (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 3920 (1), pp. 1-39 : 25-27

Harpalus (Pseudoophonus) pseudohauserianus Kataev, 2001

( Figs 52–59 )

Harpalus pseudohauserianus Kataev, 2001: 391 . Type locality: "Yunnan-Sen" (= Kunming), Yunnan, China. Harpalus (Pardileus) sinicus yunnanus ab. pseudohauserianus Schauberger, 1930: 173 (unavailable name). Type locality: "Yunnansen", Yunnan, China.

Harpalus (Pardileus) sinicus yunnanus f. picipes Schauberger, 1932: 27, 30 (unavailable name).

Type material. Holotype of H. pseudohauserianus : ♂, China, "Yunnan-Sen [= Kunming], Yunnan" [labeled by Schauberger: " Type ", " Harp. (Pard.) sinicus Hope s. yunnanus Schb. ab. pseudohauserianus Schaub. , loc. class", " sinicus Hope s. yunnanus Schaub. a. pseudohauserianus Schaub. , det. Dr. E. Schaub.", " sinicus Hope s. yunnanus Schaub. f. picipes indentata", "Coll. Dr. E. Schauberger" and " Type "] ( OÖLL). Paratypes: 16 specimens (♂ and ♀) from Yunnan ( OÖLL, ZIN, NHMB, cWR, cSND, SIEE).

Additional material examined. China. YUNNAN: 1 ♂, Kunming City, Guandu Distr., Heilongtan, Kunming Institute of Botany, Botanical Garden, 1945 m, 16–17.IX.2002, D. Kavanaugh & P. Marek leg. ( IOZ); 3 ♀, Chuxiong Co., Zixishan forest station, 2390 m, 25.00435°N 101.41094°E, 24.VIII.2007, B. Kataev & H.B. Liang leg. ( ZIN); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Chuxiong Co., Zixishan, lake side, 25.03484N 101.39908E, 2330 m, 24.VIII.2007, day, H.B. Liang leg. ( IOZ). SICHUAN: 1 ♂, S Sichuan, S Yanyuan, 27°22'01"N 101°30'17"E – 27°21'04"N 101°30'33"E, 2825–3290 m, 29.VI.2010, I. Belousov & I. Kabak leg. (cIB&IK); 1 ♂, same data as preceding, but 27°21'34"N 101°30'25"E – 27°21'04"N 101°30'33"E, 3035–3290 m ( ZIN).

Diagnosis. Similar to H. davidi and H. sericatus in external characters. It differs from H. davidi in having impunctate elytral striae and from H. sericatus in having shiny dorsum, glabrous elytra (at most occasionally with a few very fine setae on two lateral intervals), more convex elytral intervals, protibia with two ventroapical spines in a transverse row, and metafemur with three or four setigerous pores along posterior margin. In addition, H. pseudohauserianus has mesotarsomere 1 of male with adhesive vestiture underneath apically and internal sac of median lobe of aedeagus ( Figs 52–59 ) usually with several spiny patches medially and apically, rarely without any sclerotized elements. Body length 9.2–11.6 mm.

Distribution. Southwestern China: Yunnan, southern Sichuan. The species is recorded from Sichuan for the first time.

Remarks. The species is rather variable in armature of internal sac of the aedeagus, even among specimens from one locality ( Figs 56–59 ).

Figures

FIGURES 52 – 59. Harpalus pseudohauserianus, median lobe of aedeagus (52 – 53, Kunming; 54, 55, Dali; 56 – 59, S Sichuan). 52, 54, 56, 58, view from the left side; 53, 55, 57, 59, dorsal view. Scale = 1.0 mm.