Pseudoodes subcoriaceus ( Chaudoir, 1882 ) Guéorguiev & Liang, 2020

Guéorguiev, Borislav & Liang, Hongbin, 2020, Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental representatives of Lachnocrepis LeConte and Oodes Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with special account on Chinese species, Zootaxa 4850 (1), pp. 1-89 : 16

2. Pseudoodes subcoriaceus ( Chaudoir, 1882) , comb. n.

( Figs 3 A–E, Table 2)

Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882: 362 (type locality: ‘Malacca’ [state Malacca of Malaysia]).

References.

Oodes subcoriaceus: Andrewes 1930: 239 (‘Malay Peninsula.’); Lorenz 1998: 305; Lorenz 2005: 326.

Oodes (Oodes) subcoriaceus: Csiki 1931: 1011 (‘Malacca’).

Type material. Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir : holotype ♀, ‘ Malacca [y, h] // Oodes subcoriaceus . Chaud. m. [brawn, h; by M. De Chaudoir] // Museo Genova Malacca coll. Castelnau [w, h/p] // HOLOTYPUS ♀ Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882 [r, h/p] // Museo Genova coll. Castelnau [w, p]’ (MCSN).

Other material examined. None.

TME: 1 specimen. TGE: none.

Diagnosis. The species is readily separated from other species of the “ cribristernis ” group by its larger size, more than 15 mm, metepisternum as long as wide and its coadunation with epipleuron located in the middle, as well as smaller PW/HW and PW/PL, and slightly larger EL/EW.

Description. Habitus. Specimens of large size (BL: 15.8 mm, BW: 6.0 mm), with elongate, subconvex body ( Fig. 3A ). Ratios and measurements. See Table 2. Color and luster. Body black, appendages piceous to rufopiceous. Integument moderately shiny, without iridescence. Punctuation. Dorsal surface without punctuation; pro-, meso- and metepisternum as well as pro- and metasternum strongly and densely punctate at sides (prosternum stronger punctate than in P. cribristernis and P. vicarius ); abdominal ventrites 1–5 at sides and near middle, and ventrite 6 at apex densely punctate. Head. More than three quarters as wide as pronotum ( Table 2). Mentum tooth truncate, with distinct paramedial border ( Fig. 3C ). Thorax. Pronotum ( Fig. 3B ) with sides slightly rounded toward posterior angles (PW/PB: 1.05); maximum width at posterior third; laterobasal impressions indistinct, poorly defined; base feebly sinuate; anterior angles rounded, weakly projected. Prosternum with median longitudinal sulcus shallow, wide, more distinct than in other species of “ cribristernis ” group; prosternal process elliptic, with rounded apex ( Fig. 3D ). Metepisternum as long as wide (MA/MM: 1.03), with lateral margin straight to slightly convex, coadunation with epipleuron short, located near middle ( Fig. 3E ). Elytra. Apical sinuation weak, poorly defined. Basal margin distinct laterally, forming a minute denticle at shoulder, disappearing medially at level of stria 3. Parascutellar striola distinct, punctate, less impressed than other striae; striae impunctate. Intervals 1–7 subconvex, interval 8 more convex than others. Legs. Metacoxal basal sulcus extended to lateral fourth. Male genitalia. Unknown. Female genitalia. Not examined.

Distribution. Oriental Region: Malaysia (‘Malacca’).

Bionomics. Nothing is known about the bionomics of this species.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Pseudoodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882, holotype. A: habitus and labels of holotype; B: head and pronotum; C: mentum; D: prosternal process; E: right metepisternum and metacoxa (arrow shows lateral end of metacoxal basal sulcus). Scale lines = 2 mm (Fig. A); = 1 mm (Figs B–E).