Orictites ANDREWES, 1931

Balkenohl, Michael, 2017, Revision of the genus Orictites ANDREWES, 1931 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini), Contributions to Natural History 35, pp. 1-68 : 7

Subgenus Orictites ANDREWES, 1931 ( Figs 1 , 15 , 17 ; pp. 8, 15, 19)

Type species Orictites minotaur ANDREWES, 1931: 440 , by original designation.

Diagnosis: Black. General appearance like small-sized elongate Scarites species. Anterior margin of clypeus with four distinctly projecting teeth, clypeal wings sharply angled, tooth-like projecting. Mandibles as long as head; dorsal margin of scrobe of both mandibles at base with carina-like tooth, right mandible with distinct tooth at middle, left mandible with indistinct knob like tooth basally. Apical maxillary palpi elongate, bottle-like fusiform, labial palpi slender, slightly arcuate bottle-like fusiform. Pronotum distinctly broader than long, convex at middle of disc, anterior angles conspicuously projecting. Spatula of aedeagus broad. Parameres with two apical and one subapical setae. Coxostylus with one subapical seta. Body length 10–10.3 mm.

Figures

Figs 1–4: Orictites spp., habitus. 1: O. minotaur ANDREWES, 1931, lectotype, male; 2: O. costulipennis BATES, 1892, holotype, male; 3: O. mjoebergi LouWERENS, 1964, lectotype, male; 4: O. desuntsetosus sp. nov., holotype, male.

Figs 15–16: Orictites ssp., head and pronotum, lateral view; 15: Orictites (subgenus Orictites) minotaur ANDREWES, 1931,; 16: Orictites (subgenus Semictites) costulipennis BATES, 1892.

Figs 17–18: Orictites spp., Maxilla, maxillary and labial palpomere. 17: O. minotaur ANDREWES, 1931 (subgenus Orictites); 18: O. costulipennis BATES, 1892 (subgenus Semictites subg. nov.).