Cosmodela indica ( Fleutiaux, 1893 ) Klícha & Wiesner, 2021

Klícha, Miroslav & Wiesner, Jürgen, 2021, Taxonomic revision of Cosmodela duponti (Dejean), Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro), new status, and Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux), new status (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), Insecta Mundi 2021 (879), pp. 1-9 : 5-7

3. Cosmodela indica ( Fleutiaux, 1893) , new status

Type depository. Lectotype ♀ ( Fig. 3 ) in MNHN.

Type status. Lectotype ♀, designated here. Type labels: “ Assam / H. B. [handwritten]”; “ v. indica / Fleut. type [handwritten]”; “ v. indica Fleut. [handwritten]”; “ LECTOTYPUS / Cosmodela indica / ( Fleutiaux, 1893) / ded. Klícha & Wiesner, 2021” [printed, red]; ( Fig. 3 ).

Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 17–19 mm. Habitus is robust and convex. The dominant colour is deep bright green to blue with no red reflections ( Fig. 12–14 ). Some specimens show light golden tone in elytral sutural and marginal bands as well as on pronotum and head. This tone is more visible on specimens from Assam, while specimens from Meghalaya show darker tones of green and blue. Head: broad, coarsely striate between eyes, forehead with deep wrinkles, clypeus waved in the center, metallic deep bright green and blue, sometimes with subtle golden reflections; labrum wide with broad carina, black with two wide light-yellow patches in the central part, divided by the carina, with six long white setae. Genae coarsely striate, deep bright blue and green, the rear part lightly white setose. Pronotum: with shallow wrinkles, more bevelled backward, the sides not so rounded as in C. barmanica ; the base is considerably narrowed; pronotal disc glabrous, proepisterna with few long white bristles. Elytra: slightly widened posteriorly, gradually curved at the apical part towards the sutural line, in ♀♀ the curve is slightly waved; the basic colour is satin deep greenish blue, the sutural and marginal bands as well as the base and extension line situated on the first quarter of elytra are bright blue and green, in some specimens with slight golden tone as mentioned above; the marginal bands create a regular line from the base up to the elytral apex, the extension line is fully joined to the marginal band incorporating the first elytral macula. Each elytron has a white humeral dot and three white elytral patches, the first one, located in the extension line is reduced to a tiny dot, the central one is extended to a short, transverse band and the apical one is irregularly rounded. Epipleura bluish green. Ventral aspect: metallic blue green, partly white setose, abdominal sternites black with green and blue reflection, legs dark blue with bright green and violet reflections, trochanters metallic black. Aedeagus: size approx. 5,2 mm ( Fig. 19 ); the upper back side rises in a continuous curve to the top, then descends slightly to the step in the last third of the aedeagus, behind which it goes in a short, horizontal line to a beak-like bend up to the rounded apical end; the lower part goes almost horizontally to the apical end, slightly curved in the center.

Distribution. It is the most restricted species of this group found only in the NE India, namely in Assam and Meghalaya states.

Records. NE India: Meghalaya State: W. Garo Hills, Balphakram N.P., 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ( JWWC) ; Tura , 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( OSJC) ; Khasi hills, 1 ♀ ( MKPC), 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ ( MJOC) ; Assam state: Umrongbo, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( JWWC) .

Figures

Figures 1–3. Habitus of lectotypes and type labels of Cosmodela spec., scale = 5 mm, digital images by Azadeh Taghavian, MNHN. 1) Cosmodela duponti (Dejean, 1826), lectotype ♀. 2) Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro, 1893), lectotype ♂. 3) Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), lectotype ♀.

Figures 12–14. Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), habitus, scale = 5 mm. 12) ♂: NE India, Meghalaya State, W. Garo Hills, Balphakram Nat. Park, 24.–26.V.1996, alt. 100 ± 50 m, GPS N25°11′, E90°52′ (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (JWWC). 13) ♀: NE India, Meghalaya State, W. Garo Hills reg., Tura, 29.–31.V.1996, alt. 700 ± 100 m, GPS N25°30.7′, E90°13.9′ (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (JWWC). 14) ♀: Indie, VII.1997, R. Chlopčík (MKPC).

Figures 15–19. Left lateral view of aedeagi of Cosmodela spec., scale = 1 mm. 15–16. C. duponti (Dejean, 1826). 15) reddish form, S. Vietnam, 5./6. 1994, Nam Cat Tien, leg. Dembicky and Pacholatko (JWWC). 16) greenish form, Laos south, Attapu prov., Boaven Plateau, 18–30. IV. 1999, 15 km SE of Ban Houaykong, Non Lom (lake) env. N15°02′, E106°35′, alt. 800 m, E. Jendek and & O. Šauša leg. (JWWC). 17–18. barmanica (Gestro, 1893). 17) Greenish form, South India, VI. 2004, Mysore State, 2000 ft, Shimoga Dist., Agumbe Ghat, T. R. S. Nathan coll. (JWWC). 18) Reddish form, 4. VI. 2018, Myanmar, Moon State, Kyaikto, road from Bilin to Pyintha, Miroslav Klicha Lgt. (MKPC). 19) C. indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), NE India, Meghalaya State, W. Garo Hills, Balphakram Nat. Park, 24.–26.V.1996, alt. 100 ± 50 m, GPS N25°11′, E90°52′ (WGS 84), E. Jendek and O. Šauša leg. (JWWC).