Omophron aequale aequale Morawitz, 1863

Valainis, Uldis, 2010, A review of genus Omophron Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Palearctic fauna and distribution, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2), pp. 105-128 : 107-108

Omophron aequale aequale Morawitz, 1863

Description: length: 6.4 – 7.2 mm; width: 4.2 – 4.4 mm. This species has a better developed dark pattern of the upper part of the body: On the elytra the base segment of the pattern occupies the whole basic part and usually reaches to the elytral stria 15; the mid segment of the elytra surface pattern stretches to the elytral striae 14- 15, the middle and the top segments of the pattern are wide, massive and almost merge together. Unlike O. aequale jacobsoni Sem. the top parts of the elytra of this species are less rounded.The elytral pattern is as presented in Fig. 1.1.

Distribution: PAR: JA; RU (Sakhalin Island)

Processed material: Japan: 1910 (2 Males, 5 Females, Lewis leg.) ; Aomori Prefecture, Aomori (1 Female, 4 Males, E. Suenson leg.) (ZMUC) ;

Chiba Prefecture, Funabashi, 16.07.1946 (3 Males, 3 Females, Tanaka leg.) (ETHZ); Honshu Island, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto & vic. (valleys), 10.1945 (1 Female, Darlington leg.) (BMNH); Hokkaido Prefecture, Sapporo, 05.- 16.08.1880 (BMNH); Hokkaido, Bakkai Wakkanai city, 22.06.1001 (2 Male, A. Sato leg.) (DUBC), Hokodate (1 Female) (holotype) (ZIN); Kyushiu Island (1 Female); (ETHZ); Kanagawa Prefecture , Hiratsuka , 27.08.1962 (1, Tanaka leg.) (ZIN); Niigata Prefecture , Niigata , 04.- 16.09.1891 (5 Males, 9 Females) (BMNH); Osaka Prefecture , Osaka , 02.01.1896. (1 Male, Lenz Vend leg.) (ETHZ); Saitama Prefecture , Kawaguchi lake , 13 VIII 1939 (1 Male, E. Suenson leg.) (ZMUC); Tokyo Perfecture , Tamagawa , 01.06.1913 (1, Gallois leg.) (ZIN); Tokio , (1 Male, Bodemeyer leg.) (ETHZ). Russia: Sakhalin Island , Aniva distr. , Taranai vill., 30.07.2006 (1 Female, Legezin leg.) (DUBC) .

Type locality: Hokadate , Japan. Holotype is deposited in ZIN.

References: Chaudoir, 1868; Gestro, 1892; Hurka, 2003; Kryzhanovskij, 1982; Kryzhanovskij et. al., 1995; Morawitz, 1863