Dendrocellus kulti (Jedlicka) Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007

Liang, Hongbin & Kavanaugh, David H., 2007, Review of the Genus Dendrocellus Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini), with Descriptions of Seven New Species, The Coleopterists Bulletin (Oxford, England) 61 (1), pp. 1-39 : 1-39

Dendrocellus kulti (Jedlicka) , new combination

( Figs. 13–14 , 35 , 81–82 )

Desera kulti Jedlicka 1960: 598 (Yunnan)

Desera kulti recondita Hansen 1967 (Taiwan) , new synonymy

Specimens examined. Total 8 specimens. China: 1 female (NMPC), ‘‘China, Prov. Yunnan, Vallis Flumin, Soling-ho’’/‘‘Typus’’[red label]/‘‘ Desera kulti sp. n. det. Ing. Jedlicka’’; 1 male and 1 female (ISNB), ‘‘Sse-Tsong, alt. 2,000 m, Est Yunnan’’, Coll. R. S. Sc. N. B. China’’; 1 male, ‘‘ Tibet, Nyalam County, Zham Township, 2,200 m’’/‘‘ 1966.V.7, light trap, Shuyong Wang collector’’; 1 female, ‘‘ Yunnan, Wenquan’’/‘‘ 1982.III.26, Subai Liao collector’’; 1 male, ‘‘ Hubei, Xingshan, Longmen River, 1,330 m’’/‘‘ 1995.VI.11, Shuyong Wang collector’’; 1 male (ISNB), ‘‘ Desera kuntzeni P. Dupuis det. 1919’’/‘‘S. Formosa, Chip Chip, H. Sauter S. V.’’/‘‘W. Hansen det., 1966, Desera kulti Jedl. ssp. recondita nova’’/ ‘‘Type’’[red label]; 1 female (ISNB), ‘‘ Desera kuntzeni P. Dupuis det. 1919’’/ ‘‘Type’’/‘‘Formosa, Hoozan, III.10, H. Sauter S. G.’’/‘‘W. Hansen det., 1966, Desera kulti Jedl. ssp. recondita nova’’/‘‘Paratype’’.

Description. Length 9.6–11.6 mm, width 3.2–3.9 mm. Black with blue luster; Ant 1 pale yellow or with apical third brown; femora black with blue luster, tibiae yellow (dark brown in specimen from Hubei). Head almost equal in width to 26 pronotum, HW/PW 5 1.03 (0.97–1.10), Ant 1/Ant3 5 3.39 (3.13–3.62); labrum with medial lobe slightly or moderately protruded anteriorly; genae short, distinctly tumid (less so in males); eyes large, slightly protruded laterally, 2.6 times as long as genae. Pronotum short, PL/PW 5 1.29 (1.19–1.35), widest at apical third. Elytra wide and short, El/EW 5 1.58 (1.51–1.66), EW/PW 5 2.14 (2.07– 2.24), outer angles slightly round ( Fig. 35 ); intervals slightly convex, sparsely punctate, punctures small, mixed with some larger ones. Protarsomere 3 slightly asymmetrical in male; tarsal claws with 3–5 short pectinations, length of individual pectination less than half width of claw base (similar to Fig. 64 ). Aedeagus with apical lamella thin, wide, linguiform ( Figs. 81–82 ).

Distribution. China (Hubei, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan).

Remarks. We compared type specimens of Dendrocellus kulti kulti (Jedlicka) and D. kulti reconditus (Hansen) and found no significant difference, except that the former (length 9.6 mm) is slightly smaller than the latter (length 11.4– 11.6 mm). Members of this species can be recognized by their short pronota, blue elytra and black femora. This seemed to us at first to be just a blue color variation of D. nepalensis (Hope) ; but the color is very stable in all specimens we examined, and we treat it as a distinct species. Dendrocellus kulti (Jedlicka) is distributed only in China, from Tibet to Taiwan, its range partly overlapping with that of D. nepalensis Hope.

Figures

Figs. 13–24. Habitus of Dendrocellus species. 13) D. kulti (male, Yunnan); 14) D. kulti (holotype of D. kulti reconditus); 15) D. micropectinatus (holotype); 16) D. nepalensis (male, Pedong, India); 17) D. nigripennis (holotype); 18) D. queenslandicus (holotype); 19) D. schultzei (lectotype); 20) D. sinicus (holotype); 21) D. smaragdinus (holotype); 22) D. ternatensis (holotype); 23) D. unidentatus (male, Java); 24) D. viridipennis (male, Congo). Scale line 5 2.0 mm.

Figs. 35–43. Left elytron apex of Dendrocellus species. 35) D. kulti (male, Yunnan); 36) D. nepalensis (male, Pedong, India); 37) D. rugicollis (lectotype, India); 38) D. micropectinatus (holotype); 39) D. australis (male, Congo); 40) D. geniculatus (male, Tibet); 41) D. sinicus (holotype); 42) D. elegans (male, New Guinea); 43) D. unidentatus (male, Java). Scale line 5 1.0 mm.

Figs. 73–90. Male genitalia of Dendrocellus species. 73) and 74) D. confusus (Thailand); 75) and 76) D. rugicollis (lectotype); 77) and 78) D. coelestinus (Thailand); 79) and 80) D. nepalensis (Pedong, India); 81) and 82) D. kulti (Hubei, China); 83) and 84) D. crassus (Borneo); 85) and 86) D. nigripennis (holotype); 87) and 88) D. geniculatus (Pedong, India); 89) and 90) D. javanus (holotype). Scale lines 5 1.0 mm, scale line A for Figs. 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89 (apical part, dorsal view); scale line B for Figs. 74, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90 (left lateral view).

Figs. 57–72. Tarsal claws of hind tarsi of Dendrocellus species and Drypta species. 57) D. rugicollis (lectotype); 58) D. elegans (male, New Guinea); 59) D. schultzei (lectotype); 60) D. sinicus (holotype); 61) D. inexpectus (holotype); 62) D. javanus (male, Java Occid., paratype); 63) D. nigripennis (holotype); 64) D. geniculatus (male, Tibet); 65) D. australis (male, Congo); 66) D. queenslandicus (holotype); 67) D. confusus (male, Thailand); 68) D. nepalensis (male, Pedong, India); 69) D. coelestinus (syntype); 70) D. micropectinatus (male paratype, Congo); 71) Drypta longicollis Macleay 1825 (male, Thailand); 72) Drypta lineola virgata Chaudoir 1850 (male, Vietnam). Scale line 5 0.1 mm.