Alaolacon murrayi ( Candeze , 1874) Candeze, 1874
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Alaolacon murrayi ( Candeze , 1874) |
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Alaolacon murrayi ( Candeze, 1874) comb. n. Figures 55-58
Eumoeus murrayi Candèze, 1874: 113 (original description on male; type locality: Madras, India), 214 (as " Eumaeus murrayi "; index); Schwarz 1906: 40 (catalogue); Hyslop 1921: 645 (type species); Schenkling 1925: 51 (as " Eumaeus "; catalogue); Fleutiaux 1928: 178 (comments); Casari-Chen 1993: 241 (description on male; examination of holotype; misspelled Eumaeus murrayi ); Casari 2008: 158 (morphological phylogeny of Hemirhipini genera; misspelled Eumaeus murrayi ), 161 (drawing of habitus).
Tharopsides harmandi Fleutiaux, 1918: 235 (original description on male; type locality: Bangkok, Thailand); Fleutiaux 1924: 177 (republish of original description); Schenkling 1927: 509 (catalogue of world Elateridae ); Fleutiaux 1940: 40 (record of male from Vietnam); Fleutiaux 1947: 307 (as synonymy of Luzonicus murrayi ( Candèze, 1874)).
Luzonicus murrayi ( Candèze, 1874): Fleutiaux 1947: 307 (change generic status; description).
Type material.
Holotype. Male, Madras, India, Murray leg. [IRSNB] (Fig. 58).
Diagnosis.
Body red-brown, without metallic luster; setae yellow-brown; frontal depression deep; eye large; prothorax shorter than wide, widest posteriorly; pronotum with anterior angles bisinuate, median longitudinal depression not reaching anterior margin or base and impunctate at posterior half; anterior angles of hypomeron acute; prosternal spine inclined strongly behind procoxae; scutellum 1.3 × as long as wide, with sides straight, widest posteriorly; hind wings without cross vein between veins MP4 and CuA2 and wedge cell; male tergite VIII shorter than wide; median lobe of male aedeagus elongate.
Measurements.
BL: 14.9, BW: 4.85, MIE: 1.43, MAE: 2.85, OI: 50, PL: 4.34, PML: 3.68, PW: 4.64, PI: 94, EL: 10.1, EW: 4.85, EI: 208.
Description.
See Casari-Chen (1993) for a detailed description.
Distribution.
India. Thailand. Vietnam.
Remarks.
This species is only known from the male.
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