Tricondyla stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864

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 : 4

4. Tricondyla stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864

( Fig. 13, 14 , 29, 30 )

窄头缺翅虎甲 zhǎi tóu quē chì hǔ jiǎ

Listings. Wiesner 1992: 19, Naviaux 2002: 37, Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 118, Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 26, Shook and Wiesner 2006: 21, Wu and Shook 2010: 89, Wu 2011: 32, Aston 2016: 214, Wiesner and Geiser 2016: 62, Putchkov and Matalin 2017: 249, Wiesner et al. 2017: 5, Wiesner 2020: 37.

Diagnosis. Black, moderately elongated; head medium in size, very short with the temples particularly abrupt in shape and strongly humped; labrum small; mandibles short; pronotum long, smooth; medial lobe oval-shaped, the collum gradually rounded, very convex from lateral view; notopleural sutures obviously marked; elytra narrow near the base, obviously widened posteriorly, the maximum placed at 3/4 of the length; gibbosity strongly marked; sculpture deep and granular in the basal quarter, arranged in short wrinkles in the second quarter, reduced to decreasing independent pits towards the apex; aedeagus thin, regularly curved.

Distribution. China (? Hong Kong), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand.

Figures

Figures 13–14. Tricondyla stricticeps Chaudoir, 1864, scale = 5 mm. 13) Dorsal view, male. 14) Left lateral view, male.

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.