Carabus nemoralis Muller (Carabidae)

Ferreira, Raul N., 2011, Three anomalies of Coleoptera (Carabidae, Staphylinidae, and Scarabaeidae) from Connecticut, Insecta Mundi 2011 (169), pp. 1-3 : 1

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5160620

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10535855

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/294A525D-FFB8-4125-FF23-7553FECEFA4F

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Carabus nemoralis Muller (Carabidae)
status

 

Carabus nemoralis Muller (Carabidae) View in CoL

Figure 1 View Figure 1-3

Carabus Linnaeus ( Carabidae , Carabinae , Carabini ) is represented in Connecticut by six species (Krinsky and Oliver 2001). This specimen was collected by Dr. M. K. Oliver in Connecticut, New Haven Co., Hamden in his backyard under a log on muddy soil on VII-19-1986. The specimen presents a binary schistomely on the right maxillary palpus. The bifurcate maxillary palpus ( Fig. 1B View Figure 1-3 ) shows the first segment longer, wider and truncate when compared with the normal left maxillary palpus ( Fig. 1A View Figure 1-3 ), forming a bifurcation into two segments ( Fig. 1B, 1C View Figure 1-3 ) of the same size and configuration as compared with the normal segments of the left maxillary palpus. According to Balazuc (1948) this anomaly could result from an exterior action on the larva which caused a split in the distal segment. When regeneration takes place the agent stays in contact and the wound remained divided into two, avoiding the fusion of the two split parts.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Carabus

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