Tricondyla (Indotricondyla) femorata Walker, 1858

Abeywardhana, Lakmini, Mallawarachchi, Yashas & Dangalle, Chandima Deepani, 2021, The arboreal tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) of Sri Lanka recorded from recent investigations, Zootaxa 5068 (3), pp. 378-398 : 386

Tricondyla (Indotricondyla) femorata Walker, 1858

Material examined: ♂ (n = 1), ( DOZE / UOCSL / LA037 ), 6.0844°N, 80.5442°E, Wilpita Rain Forest , Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, 45 m, 12 August 2020, D.L. Abeywardhana, on trunk of a tree near a walking trail within the forest .

♂ (n = 2), ( DOZE / UOCSL / LA038 , DOZE / UOCSL / LA039 ), 6.2514°N, 80.3389°E, Kanneliya Rain Forest , Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, 36 m, 26 August 2020, D.L. Abeywardhana, on trunks of trees and on walking trail within the forest .

Measurements: BW 173.1 – 175.1, BL 23.80 – 24.49, HL 3.42 – 3.89, HW 4.39 – 4.44, ML 2.80 – 3.00, PL 5.81 – 5.91, PW 2.69 – 2.80, PI 2.08 – 2.19, EL 14.57 – 14.99, EW 4.42 – 4.54.

Diagnosis and description: Diagnosed at the generic level by the very large and stout body, large head that is narrower or more or less equal in width to the elytra, parallel sided neck, deep frontal excavation that results in the occiput being more or less at the same level as the neck, less prominent eyes, large and broad labrum, small short and blunt mandibles, antennae short and black with the 3 rd and 4 th segments ringed in red, pronotum robust with a pronotal index of 1.5 to 2.5, elytra welded and inseparable, elytral apex rounded, aedeagus rounded to squared at the base and tapers towards the apex. Included in the subgenus Indotricondyla , as the body length is greater than 19 mm, pronotum long and subrectangular with transverse striations, elytra long and subparallel with a weak gibbosity. The species is defined by the elytral sculpture that consists of finely arranged long vermicular transverse wrinkles, transverse streaks on pronotum very fine and thin, body black and shiny with metallic reflections ( Fig. 5 ).

Distribution: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, South India; Sinharaja, Hayes Deniyaya, Ratnapura, Gilimale, Kandy, Puvakpitiya, Sri Lanka ( Naviaux 2002).

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FIGURE 5. Tricondyla (Indotricondyla) femorata Male