Platymetopus rugosus rugosus ( Nietner, 1857 )

Kataev, Boris M., 2023, A review of Asian species of the genus Platymetopus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini), Zootaxa 5306 (5), pp. 501-536 : 526-527

Platymetopus rugosus rugosus ( Nietner, 1857)

( Figs. 43 , 48, 49 , 59, 60 , 66 )

Material examined (in addition to the syntypes). Sri Lanka. 1 female, “ H. rugosus Nietn. Ceylon” ( ZMUC) ; 1 female, “ Platymetopus rugosus Nietner , Ceylon” ( ZIN) ; 1 male, Mahatlava, 9 km SW Yala, Yala Nat. Res. , 22.X.1982, B. Zaitzev leg. ( ZIN) ; 1 male, 1 female, Tissamaharama , 10–12.XII.1979, Ex Col. Viggo Mahler ( ZMUC) . India. Kerala /Karnataka : 1 male, “ Cote de Malabar , M. Maindron ”, “Mahe, Juillet 1901 ” ( ZIN) . Tamil Nadu: 2 females, “Madras” [= Chennai] ( ZIN) ; 1 male, 4 females, Coimbatore , 1400 f. X.1965, P.S. Nathan leg. ( ZSM) ; 1 female, 65 km of Madras [= Chennai], 2.I.1964, K.A. Breev leg. ( ZIN) ; 2 females, “ Tranquebaria [=Tharangambadi]. Lowendal” ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, 1 female, “ Tranqueb. ” [= Tranquebar, or Tharangambadi] ( ZMUN) ; 1 male, 1 female, Vilupparam Distr., Auroville, Discipline Vill. , 12°0.7′N 79°47.97′E, 1.XI.–31.XII.2013, local collector leg. ( NME) .

Myanmar. Mandalay: 1 male, near Bagan , 21°24′N 95°25′E, 12.XI.2003, M. Hornburg leg. (cWR) .

Description. Femora and tibiae yellow, femora not infuscate, not darker than tibiae. Pronotum relatively narrower (PWmax/PL 1.53–1.63). Habitus as in Fig. 43 .

Distribution ( Fig. 66 ). This subspecies occupies the western part of the species range: Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar.

Figures

FIGURE 66. Platymetopus rugosus (Nietner, 1857), distribution: P. r. rugosus (Nietner, 1857) (black circles, based on examined material; white circles, based on literature data); P. r. obscurofemoratus subsp. n. (stars).

FIGURES 42–45. Platymetopus spp., habitus (42, 43, 45) and humerus (44). 42, P. tritus Bates, 1889 (Vietnam); 43, P. rugosus rugosus (Nietner, 1857) (India); 44, 45, P. r. obscurofemoratus subsp. n. (Vietnam, holotype). Scale bars = 1.0 mm (A: 44, B: 42, 43, 45).

FIGURES 46–56. Platymetopus spp., median lobe of aedeagus. 46, 47, P. tritus Bates, 1889 (Vietnam); 48, 49, P. rugosus rugosus (Nietner, 1857) (India); 50, 51, P. r. obscurofemoratus subsp. n. (Vietnam, holotype); 52, 53, P. quadrimaculatus Dejean, 1829 (Vietnam); 54–56, P. figuratus pictus Andrewes, 1923 (India, Rajasthan). Dorsal (46, 48, 50, 52, 54) and lateral (47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 56) views. Scale bars = 1.0 mm (A: 46–53, B: 54–56).

FIGURES 57–64. Platymetopus spp., gonocoxite, lateral view (57, 59, 61, 63), and laterotergite, gonosubcoxite, and gonocoxite, ventral view (58, 60, 62, 64). 57, 58, P. tritus Bates, 1889 (Vietnam); 59, 60, P. rugosus (Nietner, 1857) (India); 61, 62, P. quadrimaculatus Dejean, 1829 (Vietnam); 63, 64, P. figuratus pictus Andrewes, 1923 (India, Rajasthan). Scale bar = 0.5 mm.