Macrocheilus bensoni Hope, 1838

Zhao, Danyang & Tian, Mingyi, 2012, Taxonomic notes on the Macrocheilus Hope (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Helluonini) from Oriental Region, with description of one new species from the Philippines, ZooKeys 228, pp. 77-100 : 88

Macrocheilus bensoni Hope, 1838 Fig. 55

Macrocheilus bensoni Hope 1838: 166; Chaudoir 1872: 212; Bates 1892: 389; Heller 1900: 3; Andrewes 1919: 176, 202; Hůrka 2003: 407; Lorenz 2005: 512: Zhao and Tian 2010: 10. Type locality: India, deposited in NHML.

Carabus trimaculatus Olivier 1790: 347 (non Villers 1789); Andrewes 1919: 129, 176; 1920: 502; 1930, 208; Csiki 1932: 1574; Wu 1937: 188; Jedlička 1963: 470. Type locality: China, deposited in NHML.

Helluo quadrimaculata Guérin-Méneville 1840: 38; Chaudoir 1872: 212. Type locality: India, deposited in MNHN.

Helluo tripustulata sensu Guérin-Méneville 1843: 34 (non Dejean 1825); Andrewes 1923: 460. Type locality: China, deposited in MNHN.

Macrocheilus quadripustulatus Schmidt-Göbel 1846: 65. Type locality: Myanmar, deposited in NMP.

Acanthogenius infuscatus Bates 1892, 389; Andrewes 1920: 493. Type locality: Myanmar (Bhamo), deposited in MGI.

Remarks.

This species can be distinguished from Macrocheilus chaudoiri by the black head and pronotum and from Macrocheilus nigrobibialis by the slender maxillary palpomere 4.

Materials examined.

1 male, "North China, 1884, Janson" (MNHN); 1 male, "North India, Coll. Benson, Ex-Musaeo H.W. Bates, 1892" (MNHN); 1 male, "Ind. Angl., Coimbatore Dt, Siruveni, VI. 1937" (MNHN); 1 female, "Ind. Angl., Mysore" (MNHN); 1 male, "Guangdong: Zhanjiang, Oct.1982, Zhichang Tan leg." (SCAU); 2 males, "Guangdong: Yingde, 27 Mar.2003, Danyang Zhao leg." (SCAU and MNHN); 1 male, Guangxi, Dec.1983" (SCAU); 1 male, "Yunnan: Jinghong, Jul. 1985" (SCAU); 1 female, "Hainan: Diaoluoshan, 26 Nov.1963" (SCAU).

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hongkong, Hainan), Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka.