Omophron pseudotestudo, TIAN & DEUVE, 2000

Valainis, Uldis, 2010, A review of genus Omophron Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Palearctic fauna and distribution, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 10 (2), pp. 105-128 : 117-119

OMOPHRON PSEUDOTESTUDO TIAN & DEUVE, 2000

Description: lenght: 6.5 – 7.0 mm; width: 4.3 – 4.6 mm. Colour: testaceous, underside excluding sternites piceous, sternites brown, a patch on each side of pronotum somewhat coriaceous, the patch on median area of pronotum, with a narrow projection in middle to frons margin, and the elytral pattern dull green, epipleura of elytra and pronotum yellowish.

Head moderately convex, clypeus quadrisetose, joint 1 of antennae bisetose at apex, 3-4 joints plurisetose along outer margin; penultimate joint of labial palpi plurisetose in the inner side, penultimate joint of maxillary palpi with several apical setae, distal joint glabrous; subocular ridge rugose in front.

Pronotum moderately convex, transverse, somewhat bordered on basal half of lateral margin; green pattern narrow, reaching base, but not extending to front margin; punctuation on pronotum rather dense on the green patch except the central area, more coarsely in front and at base. A obvious break in the contour at the junction of pronotum and elytra.

Elytra very convex, oval, bordered at base, 15- punctate-striae, striae very deep, punctures rather small. Intervals of elytra with an irregularly row of tiny punctures. Striae 3-4, 7-8, and 11 ended at before 1/4 from apex; intervals 14 and 15 not interrupted by the green patch

Comparisons: Close allied to O. testudo Andrew. , but clypeal sulcus arcuate at middle, subocular ridge not extending near to gular suture, and intervals 14 and 15 not interrupted by the green patch. Comparing with O. maculosum Chaud. , the green pattern is more dull, patches on pronotum narrower, but extending base of pronotum and body a little bigger.

Distribution: known only from type locality – (Jianhong, Yunnan province in South China).

Type locality: Jianhong, China (holotype is deposited in South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China) .

References: Tian & Deuve, 2000

OMOPHRON ROTUNDATUM CHAUDOIR, 1852

= rotundatum ( Bänninger, 1915)

Description: lenght: 6.0 – 6.5 mm; width: 3.8 - 4.4 mm. The patch on the pronotum usually does not reach the base margin, but in top it slightly streches over the middle part. On the basic margin of elytra the spots are small, reaching only the elytral striae8 – 9; sometimes they are hardly visible or completely reduced. The middle segment of the elytra pattern is interrupted or, more rarely, narrowed in the area about the elytral striae 7-9; the top segment is shortened, reaching only the elytral striae 7, 8. The specimens that have the elytra pattern similar to that of O. limbatum (F.) are found very rarely. Elytral interval between elytral striae in the basic part usually are slightly convex. The vertex of the head between punctures has marked longitudinal plications. Puncturation on the sides of the sternites 1 and 2 is sparse, sometimes difficult to see, but it never disappears (contrary to the data presented by Bänninger (1956)).

As to the body size and structural features, including also the form of aedeagus, the species is similar to O. limbatum (F.). The dark pattern of the O. rotundatum Chaud. surface is less developed and the surface microsculpture usually is coarser than that of O. limbatum (F.), especially of females. The most peculiar difference is the comparatively smaller and darker pattern on the pronotum. The elytral pattern is as presented in Fig. 2.3.

The southeast border of the distribution of the species is not clear. O. L. Krizhanovskij (1982) doubted correctness of the data ( Andrewes, 1929) on the distribution of this species in Southern China and Wietnam; he considered those data referring to O. saigonense Chaud. There are the data ( Tian & Deuve, 2000) also on the finding of O. rotundatum Chaud. in Hainan Island, but, as the authors themselves have pointed out, the morphologic features of the definite specimen do not correspond to the description of the speices given by Andrewes (1929). Still, having compared the specimen with the holotype of the species ( Chaudoir, 1852), the authors have included it into the species O. rotundatum Chaud.

Distribution: PAR:AB; AF; AR; IR; IQ; IS; KZ; LB; PA; SY; TD; TM; TRa; UZ; CH: HAI; XIN; IN: HP

Processed material: Caucasus, Arexeststhal, Leder Reitter (2 Males) (ETHZ); Afganistan: Panjao, 25.07.1948 (1 Male, Haarlov leg.) (BMNH); El Hedjaz, 1915 (2 Females, Mellingen leg.) (BMNH); Tr. Casp., Aschabad (1 Female) (BMNH); Transkasp., Kuschka (1 Female) (BMNH) ; Bamyan Province, Panjab (1 Female, N. Harlov leg.) (ZMUC); Armenia : Caucasus, Kasikoporan (1 Male, 4 Females) (ETHZ); Aresh Distr. , Geok-Tapa (1 Male) (ETHZ); Geok-Tapa, A. Schelkownikow leg. (2 Males, 1 Female); Geok-Tapa, L. Mesmin leg. (1 Male, 3 Females); Geok-Tapa, Clermont leg. (3 Females) (ETHZ); Marmarik River valley , Tarkjarlu vill ., 1900 m, 40 o 37’ N, 44 o 31’ E, 23.06.1997 (1 Male, Melnik leg.) (MPUC); Azerbaijan : Ganja, (16 Males, 26 Females) (ETHZ) ; Lankaran, Talish , 02.06.1936 (3, Arnoldi leg.) (ZIN) ; Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, Ordubad Province, Arakas 05.1882 (1, Xristoer leg.) (ZIN); Nahich , 27.06.1933 (1, Znajko leg.); China : Tian-Schan (1 Male) (ETHZ); Iran : Elburs – Gebirge, Nord – Persien, Rudbar, 800 m, B.v. Bodemeyer (1 Male, 1 Female) (ETHZ); Kopet. Dagh (1 Female) (ETHZ); Kerman Province, Sargad , 28.08. – 04.09.1898 (21, Zarubnij U. leg.) (ZIN) ; Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Sistan , 10. – 11.04.1901 (1, Zarubnij leg.) (ZIN); 24. – 26.04.1901 (2, Zarubnij leg.) , Sistan and Baluchestan province, Samukan, 1893 (3) (ZIN); Iraq : Bagdad, 1915 (2 Males, 3 Females) (BMNH); Mesopotamia, Mosul, 05.1909 (1 Female, Hauser leg.) (BMNH); Assur, Mesopot, Pietschmann, Mesopot exp. Nat., O. V, (1 Male, 1910) (ETHZ); Mesopotamia, Mossui , (4 Males, 4 Females) (ETHZ); Kazakhstan : Aktobe Province, Kargalinsk , 23.06.1908 (1, Malchevskij leg.) (ZIN) ; West Kazakhstan Province, Aksaj , 13.04.1909 (2) (ZIN); Kyrgyzstan , Fergana, Tashkumar, Kara- Suu , 700 m, 22.07.1991 (1 Male, Danilevskij leg.) (MPUC) ; Chuy Province , Bishkek, 11- 12.07.1913 (1, Chernavin leg.) (ZIN) ; Zhambyl Province, Taraz (1, E. Fischer leg.) (ZIN); Tajikistan : Kurgan – Tube, Dzhilikul , 18 V 2000 (2 Females) (DUBC) ; Sughd Province, Khujand , 06.1977 (1 Male, Kukuruza leg.) (MPUC) ; Khatlon Province, Saricashma, 29.06.1986 (1 Male, Semenov leg.) (MPUC); Darvoz district, Pamir mount., Vanch river vall ., 2000 m, 28.05.1980 (1 Female, Mihailov leg.) (MPUC); Khatlon Region, Kulob 08.1933 (1, Popov leg.) (ZIN) ; Dushanbe, 28.06.1939 (1, Jevrikiva leg.), 14.06.1939 (1, Kizanovskij leg) (ZMUM); Turkmenistan : Mary Province, Mary, Coll., Hauser , (2 Males, 05.1900) (ETHZ) ; Mary, Coll., Hauser, (1 Female, 04.1900) (ETHZ); Transcaspien, Kuscha ?, Koshantchikoff leg. (2 Males, 3 Females, 25.- 26.06.1912) (ETHZ) ; Mary Province, Badkhiz, Morgunavka vill., 06.05.1976 (1 Male, Chernjaxovskij leg.) (MPUC) ; Mary Province, Badkhiz, Turanga gorge, 19.05.1970 (3 Males, Tihomirova leg.) (MPUC) ; Ashgabat, Kaaxkinsk, Dushak vill., 400 m, 21.06.1992 (2 Males, Danilevskij leg.) (MPUC) ; Cardzuj Province 20.05.1905 (1, Sumakov leg.) (ZIN), 02.06.1905 (1, Sumakov leg.) (ZIN), 15.07.1905 (1, Fisher A. leg.) (ZIN) ; Ahal Province, Kopetdah Chandir river, Tubli gorge 25.07.1935 (1, Arnoldi leg.) (ZIN); Eylandt (1) (ZIN) ; Lebap Province, Repetek , 19.06.1905 (1, Sumakov leg.) (ZIN); Uzbekistan : Bukhara Province, Bukhara, Hissar Mountains , (12 Males, 7 Females) (ETHZ) ; Fergana Province, Margelan (1 Female) (ETHZ); Bukhara (2 Males, 1 Female) (BMNH) ; Bukhara Province, Bukhara, Hissar Mountains (1) (ZIN) ; Bukhara Province, Bukhara (2, Staudinger leg.) (ZMUM); Kaukasus, Elisabethpol (1 Female) (BMNH); Asia Centr. , Hissar , Buchara (1 Male) (BMNH); Surhundarja , Termez , Dzhar – Kurgan, Katta – Kum, 21. IV 2004 (7 Males, 16 Females) (DUBC) ; Bukhara Province, Bukhara (1 Male) (MPUC) ; Surkhandarya Province, Termez, Ugkizilbsk reservoir, 28.08.1990 (1 Female, Semenov leg.) (MPUC) ; Tashkent Province, Tashkent , 06.05.1925 (1 Female, Kirpov leg.) (MPUC) ; Tashkent Province, Tashkent (2) (ZIN); Samarqand Province, Toxta-Karagar , 03- 07.07.1996 (1 Female, Verigin leg.) (ZIN) ; Surkhandarja Province, Shirabad 28.05.1912 (1, A. Kirichenko leg.) (ZIN) .

Type locality: „ Mesopotamia” (holotype is deposited in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle , Paris, France) .

References: Andrewes, 1929; Bänninger, 1915; Bänninger, 1918; Bänninger, 1956; Chaudoir, 1852; Chaudoir, 1868; Gestro, 1892; Hurka, 2003; Kryzhanovskij, 1982; Kryzhanovskij et. al., 1995; Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1926; Tian & Deuve, 2000; Valainis, 2009; Zaitzev, 1916;

OMOPHRON SMARAGDUS ANDREWES, 1921

Description: lenght: 6.0 – 7.0 mm; width: 4.0 - 4.4 mm. Colour: testaceous, sterna and front margin of prothorax piceous; back and sides of head, a wide transverse patch on prothorax, extending to base and covering its central third, extending aiso to a broad point at middle of apex, and an elytral pattern rather bright green.

Head flat, front nearly smooth, sides and back rather closely striate-punctate, clypeus uneven, quadrisetose, indistinctly bordered, widely emarginate, suture with an angle at middle, lobes of mentum rounded, epilobes not projecting, subocular ridges extending little beyond fissure, area in front of them finely rugose-striate.

Prothorax moderately convex, rather coarsely coriaceous, coarsely punctate along base, more finely on disk and along front margin, base only slightly sinuate near hind angles, sides a little rounded at about middle and faintly sinuate before angles, median line fine but distinct, not reaching extremities.

Elytra oval, convex, base unbordered, sides rather strongly dilated behind shoulders; 15-punctate-striate, the punctures very distinct, intervals rather flat on disk, more convex at sides, a row of minute punctures down the centre of each. A fine microsculpture is present. The elytral pattern is as presented in Fig. 3.1.

Comparisons: In general appearance strikingly like O. maculosus Chaud.. Head less rugose, more conspicuously punctuate, the punctures less confluent; prothorax very obviously punctuate and much less roughly coriaceous (in O. maculosus the punctures hardly show except along front margin), the green patch larger, the testaceous colour at base and sides separated (or almost to); elytra rather more strongly rounded behind shoulder, the minute puncturation of intervals much less evident, striae rather deeper and more strongly punctuate, front and middle patches not interrupted on interval 13.

Distribution: PAR: IN: UP, UTH

Processed material: India: Uttarkhand, Kumaon, Ranikhet (1 Male, Champion leg.) (Holotype) (BMNH), (1 Male, 1 Female, Champion leg.) (Cotypes) (BMNH); Uttarkhand W. Almora, Kumaon, (1 Female, Champion leg.) (BMNH); Uttarkhand Kuamon, Saryu Valley , 5000 ft. (3 Males, 3 Females, Champion leg.) Uttarkhand, Kuamon (Compared with type) (1 Female) (ETHZ); Uttarkhand, Ranikhet (1 Female, Champion leg.) (BMNH); Uttarkhand, West Bhatoe, Kumaon, 4000 ft. (2 Females, Champion leg.) (BMNH); Inde Anglaise Pedong, Region de Darjecling, 1935 (1 Female) (BMNH)

Type locality: India, Kumaon , Ranikhet (holotype is deposited in BMNH) .

References: Andrewes, 1921; Andrewes, 1929; Hurka, 2003