Pristosia

Schmidt, Joachim & Hartmann, Matthias, 2009, Pristosia Motschulsky, 1865 from the Nepal Himalaya: Taxonomy and Biogeography (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini), Zootaxa 2009, pp. 1-26 : 18-19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185751

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222578

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D5727D13-6370-FFFC-FF20-F8F8FB39DF43

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scientific name

Pristosia
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Pristosia View in CoL spec.

Regarding other occurrences of Pristosia in the Nepal Himalaya, a widely isolated Pristosia population on the north western slope of the Dhaulagiri massif is known to us from a single immature female specimen. The eyes are slightly larger than in P. dahud Morvan, 1994 , and in P. g l a b e l l a sp. n., the elytral microsculpture is not scale-like as in females of P. dahud dahud , the pronotum is more slender than in P. dahud polita s sp. n.

and in P. similata sp. n. Because important diagnostic characters of male genitalia are not currently available we are not able to present a sufficient specific diagnosis and therefore we abstain from a denomination and description of a new species.

Material: NEPAL, DOLPA DISTRICT: 1 female, with label data “nördl. [north of] Dhaulagiri, Gompa/ Tarakot 3300–3400 m, 2.–6.VI.1973 ”, “NEPAL-Expeditionen Jochen Martens” ( SMNS).

SMNS

Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkund Stuttgart

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

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