Omphra pilosa ( Klug, 1834 )

Raj, Shiju T., Sabu, Thomas K. & Danyang, Zhao, 2012, The apterous endemic genus Omphra Dejean (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Helluonini) of the Indian subcontinent: taxonomy with notes on habits and distributional patterns, Insecta Mundi 2012 (206), pp. 1-15 : 8-9

Omphra pilosa ( Klug, 1834)

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Omphra pilosa (Klug) ; Reiche 1843: 330; Erichson 1847: 141; Redtenbacher 1867: 5; Chaudoir 1872: 141; Putzeys 1875: 45; Andrewes 1921 (a): 163; 1923: 460; 1927: 101; 1930: 237; Csiki 1932: 1578; Jedlicka 1963: 512; Lorenz 2005: 511; Zhao et al. 2008: 371.

Helluo pilosus Klug, 1834: 71 .

Galerita attelaboides Fabricius, 1801: 214 ; Schaum 1847: 49; 1848: 334; Motschulsky 1855: 54.

Description. Color. Dorsal and ventral sides black; labrum and mentum black or brownish red, coxae and trochanter brownish red, legs black. Setae black in color.

Head. Labrum transversely not extended. Clypeus with 6-8 setae. Mentum oval and rectangular, median tooth with 2 setae, base with 2 setae. Last maxillary and labial palpomere dilated. Last antennomere elongate oval.

Pronotum. Strongly convex, entirely rounded, widest in middle. Lateral margins strongly sinuate to base. Base slightly emarginate laterally.

Scutellum. Sparsely or densely punctate.

Elytra. Elongated oval, widest behind the middle. Humerus not pronounced. Intervals strongly convex, apical margin obliquely truncated with weak emargination.

Genitalia. Male: Apical lamella wide and rounded at apex. Female: Stylomere 1 setose at apical rim; stylomere 2 with one setae at ventro-lateral margin.

Measurements. Male (n=10), TL = 14.0 and 17.0, TW = 4.9 and 6.1, PL = 3.3 and 3.9, PW = 4.0 and 5.1, EL = 8.0 and 10.0. Female (n=5), TL = 14.0 and 17.0, TW = 5.7 and 6.9, PL = 3.4 and 3.9, PW = 4.2 and 5.0, EL = 7.5 and 10.0.

Specimens examined (n=134). Syntypes. INDIA: Eastern India, No. 575, 1 male, 3 females ( ZMHB) ; Eastern India, 3 males, 2 females ( MNHN) ; SRI LANKA: 1 female (Holotype of O. attelaboides ), No. 575 ( ZMHB). SRI LANKA: Hikkaduwa , IV. 1984, E. Kirscenhofer, H. E. Andrewes, 1 male ( NHMW) ; IV. 99, L. Magnus, det. H. E. Andrewes, 1 male ( NHMW) ; INDIA: Maharashtra, Bombay, No. 10, under stones, C/8311, det. H. E. Andrewes, 1920, unknown collector, 1 sex undetermined ( INPC). INDIA: Kerala, Arakkulam , 17.IV.2006, Sabu K.T., 2 males, 1 female ; Calicut, 5-XI-2007, Basheer M., 21 males, 14 females ; Chemperi , 03.IV.2006, Vineesh P.J., 1 male ; Chinnar , 26.I.2008, Sabu K.T. 16 males, 2 females ; Chinnar , 02.07.2007, Shiju T.R., 5 males, 4 females ; Karimutti , 26.I.2008, Shiju T.R., 2 females ; Kuttiyadi, 05.IX.07, Basheer M., 1 female; Malappuram, 02.V.06, Vinod K.V., 1 female; Thodupuzha , 17.IV.2006, Sabu K.T., 4 females; ( SJCC) . Calicut, 15.X.2007, Sabu K.T., 3 males, 4 females ( TNAU) ; Calicut, Shiju T.R. 6 males, 5 females ( ZSIC) ; Malabar, unknown collector, 7 males, 3 females; Mahe, Cote de Malabar , Julliet, 1901, M. Maindron, 3 male, 1 female ; Hindustan, Mahe, Malabar Coll on Le Moult, Natuaraliste , Paris, Coll. M., 9 males, 1 female, Tamil Nadu, Madras, Collection P. Dupuis, 1 male ; Uthar Pradesh, Haridvar, P. Dupuis, 1 female; Bengal, P. Dupuis, 1 male; Inde, unknown collector, 1 male ; ex coll. Bonneuil, 1 female ( ISNB) .

Distribution. India and Sri Lanka.

Remarks. Omphra pilosa is most similar to O. hirta and O. rotundicollis with obliquely truncate elytral apex. It is easily distinguished from O. hirta and O. rotundicollis by its black elytral setae and unpointed, emarginated elytral apex.