Brachinus (Aploa) pictus Hope, 1833

Ullah, Mishkat, Naeem, Muhammad, Mahmood, Khalid & Rafi, Muhammad Ather, 2017, Faunistic studies of the tribe Brachinini (Carabidae: Coleoptera) from northern Pakistan, Zootaxa 4232 (2), pp. 173-184 : 176

Brachinus (Aploa) pictus Hope, 1833

Figure 2 (a)

Brachinus figratus Chaudoir, 1852: 41 ( Anichtchenko 2016; Lorenz 2016)

Material examined. Punjab, Mianwali, Nummal Lake , 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, 09.iii.2007, M. Abbas; Attock, Akhori, 11 ♀ & 4 ♂, 29.iii.2014 ; Attock, Humak , 1♀ & 1♂, 29.iii.2014 ; Chakwal, Katas , 1 ♂, 30.v.2014, Mishkat ( PMNH).

Measurements: Male (n=5): TL= 10.55 mm, HW= 2.17 mm, PL= 1.73 mm, PW= 2.32 mm, EL= 6.50 mm, EW= 2.62 mm. Ratios PL/PW= 0.74, HW/PW= 0.93 and EL/EW= 2.48

Female (n=5): TL= 10.97 mm, HW= 2.18 mm, PL= 1.89 mm, PW= 2.33 mm, EL= 6.82 mm, EW= 2.73 mm. Ratios PL/PW= 0.81, HW/PW= 0.93 and EL/EW= 2.49

Diagnosis. Body mostly yellow, antennal segments V to XI brownish. Elytra length 2.48 times of its maximum width, with black marks near the scutellum along the suture upto 2/5 of elytra length, two rounded sub-humeral spots narrowly extended to the shoulders and a sub-apical transverse band with three posterior spots merged to form a continuous sinuated band.

Comments. This species closely resembles B. (A.) nobilis Dejean, 1931 in color details: both species are yellowish, but the outer subhumeral spot extends to the humeral region in B. (A.) pictus , which is never the case in B. (A.) nobilis .

Distribution. The species was collected in Attock and Mianwali regions. All of the earlier records of this species originated from India (Maharashtra; West Bengal), Iran, Sri Lanka and Thailand ( Anichtchenko 2016; Lorenz 2016).

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FIGURE 2. Dorsal habitus 2 a, Brachinus (Aploa) pictus (Hope, 1833) total length 10.9 mm; 2 b, Brachinus (Neobrachinus) pallidipes Reitter, 1919, comb. nov., total length 10.28 mm; 2 c, Mastax pakistana Jedlika, 1963 total length 3.62 mm.