Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908

Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, Zootaxa 4816 (4), pp. 576-600 : 579-580

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
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scientific name	Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908
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Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908 View in CoL

= Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876 View in CoL

Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908: 410 View in CoL ; Hrdlička 2003: 215; Hrdlička, 2017: 476

Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876: 71 View in CoL ; Motschulsky, 1864: 214; Ballion, 1871: 324

Type locality. India: Himachal Pradesh: Shimla, coll. Dr. Bacon.

Type depository. MNHN .

Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Chaudoir (1876).

Description. Length 8.5–9.5 mm. Head, pronotum, antennae reddish brown; elytra black; legs pale yellowish red.

Head stout, broad, glabrous, smooth; neck almost smooth. Eyes less protruding.

Pronotum as long as wide, glabrous, not exceeding the width of head with eyes; laterally convex, moderately narrowed before the base, hind angles not pointed, not projecting laterally.

Elytra convex, with faint, wide striations, having equally raised intervals; disc smooth with slight punctuations over the intervals.

Distribution. INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Shimla.

Remarks. This species was described as Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876 , but diagnosed as a homonym and renamed as Brachinus chaudoirianus by Jakobson (1908).