Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850

Xiong, Xinxin & Wiesner, Jürgen, 2023, Chinese species of the genus Tricondyla Latreille, 1822 (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) and a new record for the country, Insecta Mundi 2023 (8), pp. 1-9 : 2-3

2. Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850

( Fig. 5 – 8 , 25, 26 )

短胸缺翅虎甲 duǎn xiōng quē chì hǔ jiǎ

Listings. Wiesner 1992: 19, Naviaux 2002: 49, Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 118, Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 28, Sawada and Wiesner 2004: 272, 2006: 455, Shook and Wiesner 2006: 21, Shook and Wu 2007: 92, Wu and Shook 2007: 39, 2010: 89, Wu 2011: 31, Wiesner and Geiser 2016: 64, Putchkov and Matalin 2017: 249, Wiesner et al. 2017: 8, Wiesner 2020: 38.

Diagnosis. Habitus large, robust; dull black or partially brownish; head broad with the temples rather abruptly shaped; interocular cavity moderately deep but wide with the bottom very convex towards the frons; pronotum rather long, the ratio length to width variable from 1.9 to 2.1, the medial lobe oval-shaped, slightly narrowed in front, strongly inflated from lateral view, striated throughout; elytra regularly widened without obvious lateral constriction, gibbose; sculpture strong, granular and transverse near the base, behind with regularly arranged polygonal pits.

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Xizang, Yunnan), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar.

Figures

Figures 5–8. Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850, scale = 5 mm. 5) Dorsal view, male. 6) Left lateral view, male. 7) Dorsal view, female. 8) Left lateral view, female.

Figures 23–34. Aedeagus, scale = 1 mm. 23–24) Tricondyla wiesneri Naviaux, 2002. 23) Left lateral view. 24) Ventral view. 25–26) Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850. 25) Left lateral view. 26) Ventral view. 27–28) Tricondyla pulchripes White, 1844. 27) Left lateral view. 28) Ventral view. 29–30) Tricondyla stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864. 29) Left lateral view. 30) Ventral view. 31–32) Tricondyla gestroi scabra Fleutiaux, 1920. 31) Left lateral view. 32) Ventral view. 33–34) Tricondyla macrodera abruptesculpta Horn, 1925. 33) Left lateral view. 34) Ventral view.