Ophionea indica ( Thunberg, 1784 )

Sudhakar Anagha, V. S. & Sabu, Thomas K., 2024, Additions to the taxonomy of the genus Ophionea Klug, 1821 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiinae) and a new species from India, Zootaxa 5437 (4), pp. 523-536 : 529-530

Ophionea indica ( Thunberg, 1784)

Ophionea indica (Thunberg) : Andrewes, 1919: 476; id. 1921b: 345; id. 1924a: 116; id. 1930: 241; Araki, 1936: 48, 49; Liebke, 1938: 79; Andrewes, 1947:10; Habu, 1950: 944, f: 2683; Landin, 1955: 408, 467; Louwerens, 1956: 45; Habu, 1961a: 296; id. 1961b: 113; id. 1962: 113–116, 126; id. 1967: 31; id. 1982: 96; Saha et al., 1992: 48; Bousquet & Ito, 2003: 444; Baehr, 2003: 58; id. 2005: 180, 191 & 192; Lorenz, 2005: 442; Park et al., 2006: 98; Terada & Wu, 2014: 16 & 25; Löbl & Löbl, 2017: 634; Raj & Thomas, 2019: 6; Divya, 2022: 91; Kurian, 2023: 81.

= Attelabus indicus Thunberg, 1784: 68 .

= Cicindela cyanocephala Fabricius, 1798: 60 .

= Odacantha cyanocephala (Fabricius) : Fabricius, 1801: 229; Herbst, 1806: 223.

= Casnonia cyanocephala (Fabricius) : Latreille & Dejean, 1824: 130; Dejean, 1825: 173

= Colliuris cyanocephala (Fabricius) : Brullé, 1834: 139.

= Ophionea cyanocephala (Fabricius) : Schmidt-Göbel, 1846: 20; Motschulsky, 1855: 52; Bates, 1873: 303; Gestro, 1875: 855; Bates, 1886: 199; id. 1889: 279; id. 1891: 335; id. 1892: 380; Maindron, 1910: 35; Matsumura, 1910: 49 & 82; Andrewes, 1919: 475; id. 1921a: 161; id. 1923: 4; Hirayama, 1940: 89, pl. 32.

= Casnoidea cyanocephala (Fabricius) : Dupuis, 1913: 270.

= Casnoidea indica (Thunberg) : Csiki, 1932: 1534, 1535; Jedlička, 1940: 18; id. 1963: 499; Darlington, 1968: 208; Baehr, 1996: 1055.

Materials examined (n = 37). (1 male). Labelled “ India: Kerala: Pathanamthitta: Goodrical Forest Range (9°22’43.8”N 76°59’25.0”E), ‘Light trap’, 30. x. 2021. coll. P.M. Sureshan & party” ; (1 male). Labelled “ India: Kerala: Kozhikode: Maruthoor (11.4572°N, 75.7300°E), ‘Light trap’, 16. i. 2022. coll. Anagha Sudhakar V. S” ; (2 male). Labelled “ India: Kerala: Kannur: Chambad (11°52’23.5”N 75°30’24.5”E), ‘Light trap’, 28.i. 2022. coll. Shigina K ” ; (2 male). Labelled “ India: Kerala: Kozhikode: Mavoor (11.2604° N, 75.9391° E), ‘Light trap’, 14. ii. 2022. coll. Neethu V. P” ; deposited in ZSI-WGRC Calicut ; (2 male). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Thoothukudi: Authoor (8°36’43.1”N 78°05’02.8”E) ‘Light trap’, 10. v. 1993. coll. M.S. Ravi ” ; (7 males). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu:Tirunelveli: Courtallam (8°56’14.3”N 77°16’11.4”E), Nellai Wildlife Sanctuary (8°42’50.1”N 77°45’23.9”E), ‘Light trap’, 02. x. 2018. coll. R Venkitesan” ; (1 male). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Theni: Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary (9°35’25.6”N 77°25’55.6”E): Moola Vaigai River (9°49’36.9”N 78°15’35.4”E) ‘Light trap’, 22. ii. 2019. coll. R. Babu” ; (1 male). Labelled ‘ India: Tamil Nadu: Theni: Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary (9°35’25.6”N 77°25’55.6”E): Cumbum East (9°44’34.0”N 77°16’38.7”E): Suruli (9°39’36.5”N 77°18’20.8”E), ‘ Light trap’, 27. ii. 2019. coll. R. Babu ” ; (3 males). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli: Sengaltheri Kalakkad range (8°32’02.9”N 77°27’00.5”E), Manimuthar Falls (8°39’12.8”N 77°24’48.3”E), Ambasamudram (8°42’38.5”N 77°27’06.8”E) ‘ Light trap’, 11. iii.2021. coll. R. Babu ” ; (2 males). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Kanyakumari: Kalikesam (8°24’47.6”N 77°23’30.9”E) ‘Light trap’, 09. iii. 2022. coll. R. Babu” ; (4 males). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli:Sengaltheri Kalakkad range (8°32’02.9”N 77°27’00.5”E) ‘Light trap’, 14. iii.2022. coll. R. Babu” ; (1 male). Labelled “ India: Karnataka: Udupi: Malpe (13°21’21.3”N 74°42’14.8”E) ‘Light trap’, 16. ix. 1998. coll. M.B. Ragunathan ”; deposited in ZSI-SRC Chennai ; (1 male). Labelled “ India: Manipur: Thoubal (24°39’16.3”N 93°59’51.2”E) ‘Light trap’, coll. J. Das Gupta ”; deposited in ZSI-HQ Kolkata ; (1 male). Labelled “ India: Uttarakhand: Haridwar: Roorkee (29°50’38.4”N 77°52’34.5”E) ‘Light trap’, 10. x. 1990. coll. A. Hussain ”; deposited in ZSI-NRC Dehradun ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Kerala: Kozhikode: Maruthoor (11.4572°N, 75.7300°E), ‘Light trap’, 16. i. 2022. coll. Anagha Sudhakar V. S”; deposited in ZSI-WGRC Calicut ; (3 females). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Thoothukudi: Authoor (8°36’43.1”N 78°05’02.8”E) ‘Light trap’, 10. v. 1993. coll. M.S. Ravi ” ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Thiruvallur: Red hills lake area (13°10’00.7”N 80°10’17.4”E) ‘Light trap’, 21. i. 1997. coll. Mary Bai ” ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Tiruvannamalai: Cheyyar (12°39’49.2”N 79°32’28.3”E) ‘Light trap’, 22. xii. 2012. coll. Jayashree Thilak ” ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli: Sengaltheri Kalakkad range (8°32’02.9”N 77°27’00.5”E), Manimuthar Falls (8°39’12.8”N 77°24’48.3”E), Ambasamudram (8°42’38.5”N 77°27’06.8”E) ‘Light trap’, 11. iii. 2021. coll. R. Babu” ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli: Sengaltheri Kalakkad range (8°32’02.9”N 77°27’00.5”E) ‘Light trap’, 14. iii. 2022. coll. R. Babu” ; (1 female). Labelled “ India: Karnataka: Udupi: Malpe (13°21’21.3”N 74°42’14.8”E) ‘Light trap’, 16. ix. 1998. coll. M.B. Ragunathan ” ; Labelled “ India: Andhra Pradesh: Srikakulam: Kadagandi (18°33’17.3”N 83°53’02.5”E) ‘Light trap’, 23. i. 2022. coll. Jayashree Thilak ”; deposited in ZSI-SRC Chennai.

Measurements. Male: TLB = 6.69–6.97 mm, PL = 1.54–1.57 mm, PW = 0.73–0.77 mm, EL = 3.28–3.53 mm, EW = 1.65–1.70 mm; Female: TLB = 7.22–7.69 mm, PL = 1.64–1.77 mm, PW = 0.77– 0.93 mm, EL = 3.48–3.90 mm, EW = 1.82–2.09 mm.

Distribution. India: Kerala (Malabar, Palakkad: Pudussery, Chulanur, Pattambi, Wayanad: Ambalavayal), West Bengal (Kolkata); throughout Southeastern Asia; Sri Lanka; Vietnam; Myanmar; Thailand; Indonesia; Philippines; China; Japan; Nepal; Taiwan; Malay Archipelago from Japan to Papua New Guinea; Australia.

Remarks. Ophionea indica was first described by Thunberg (1784) and the holotype of O. indica was destroyed ( Jedlička 1963). While analyzing the type species from Zoological Museum, Kiel, Germany, it has been noted that the lectotype of O. indica has not been designated. The characters of the syntypes of Odacantha cyanocephala ( Fabricius, 1798) (synonym of Ophionea indica ) preserved at Kiel Museum exactly match with the type description of O. indica provided by Thunberg (1784). Hence, one of the syntypes has been designated as the lectotype of O. indica ( Figs. 3E ).

Materials examined (n=2): Lectotype (here designated), in India (Tamil Nadu: Tharangambadi), Daldorff, Mus. D. Lund, type in Zoological Museum, Kiel, Germany.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Dorsal habitus of Ophionea. (A) O. nigrofasciata Schmidt-Göbel, 1846, holotype; (B) O. interstitialis Schmidt- Göbel, 1846, holotype; (C) Ophionea ceylonica (Baehr,1996), first report from India; (D) O. ceylonica (Baehr,1996), holotype; (E) Lectotype of Ophionea indica [Odacantha cyanocephala (Thunberg, 1784)]; (F) O. bhamoensis bhamoensis (Bates, 1892), cotype.