Cylindera (Parmecus) armandi (Fairmaire, 1886)

Matalin, Andrey V., 2019, Taxonomic revision of Cylindera Westwood, 1831 subgenus Parmecus Motschulsky 1864 stat. rest., stat. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae) with the description of one new species from Yunnan Province, China, Zootaxa 4706 (1), pp. 48-70 : 48-70

Cylindera (Parmecus) armandi (Fairmaire, 1886)

Figs 8–10 , 12, 16, 22–23, 30–31, 36–37, 49, 53, 58, 63, 68.

= Cicindela armandi Fairmaire, 1886a: 223 (Type locality—Yunnan). Jansenia armandi (Fairmaire, 1886) : Fleutiaux 1892: 38. Cicindela armandi Fairmaire, 1886 : Fairmaire, 1886b: 304; Horn 1905: 34, 1915: 290; 1926: 167; 1938: 41, Taf. 50, Fig, 4. Cicindela (Cylindera) armandi Fairmaire, 1886 : Acciavatti & Pearson 1989: 242. Cylindera (Cylindera) armandi (Fairmaire, 1886) : Schilder 1953: 547; Rivalier 1961: 139, Fig. 9a , 140; Wiesner 1992: 182; Lorenz, 2005: 55; Putchkov & Matalin 2003: 109, 2017: 234; Shook & Wiesner 2006: 13; Shook & Wu 2007: 34; Wu & Shook 2007: 37, 2010: 81; Wu 2011: 26.

Type material. LECTOTYPE, ♀ —“ Naturalist, Paris ” [typeset white label], “ Cicindela armandi, Fm , Yunnan ” [hand-written white label], “ TYPE ” [typeset orange label], “ TYPE ” [typeset pink label], “ R. Mus. Hist. Nat., Belg. I.G. 11.230” [typeset white label], “cfr. le Naturaliste, VIII 1886, p. 223” [hand-written white label], “ LECTO- TYPE, Cicindela armandi Fairmaire , by R.E. Acciavatti, ‘83, cf. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 1989, 58: 242, 3” [typed and hand-written red label, pasted-in white label] ( Figs 8–10 ) ( RBINS) ; PARALECTOTYPES, 3♀ —“ Yunnan, Ta-pintze, R.P. Delavay ” [typeset white label], “det. L. Fairmaire, Cicindela armandi Fairm. ” [hand-written white label], “ Cotype ” [typeset and hand-written pink label], “ Paratype [typeset orange label]”, “cf. le Naturaliste, VIII 1886, p. 223” [hand-written white label], “ R. Mus. Hist. Nat., Belg. I.G. 11.230” [typeset white label], “ PARALECTO- TYPE, Cicindela armandi Fairmaire , by R.E. Acciavatti, ‘83” [typed and hand-written red label] ( RBINS) .

Additional material. CHINA: 2♀ — Nord-Ouest Yunnan, Djo-Kuo-La, alt. 1200 m ; 2♀ — Ouest Yunnan, Ta Li Fou [= Dali] (all RBINS) ; 4♂ 5♀ —N. Yunnan, 30 km N of Lijiang , 3000 m, 3.VIII.1990, lgt. L. & M. Bocák ( NMB) ; 4♂ 3♀ — Yunnan, S Lijiang, h ~ 3200 m, 15. VI .1997, leg. A. Gorodinski (cSK); 1♀ — Yunnan, Lijiang city env., h ~ 2700 m, 10. VI .1998, leg. A. Gorodinski ( MSPU); 1♂ — Yulongxue Shan , 2750 m, Likiang, Prov. Yunnan, 7. VI .1988, leg. S. Koinaya (cJG); 2♂ 1♀ —N Yunnan, Yulongxueshan , h = 3500 m, 16.06.1996, leg. S. Murzin (cPU) ; 4♂ 10♀ —S Sichuan, S Yanyuan , 27 o 20’32’’N 101 o 31’20’’E, h ~ 3580 m, 1.07.2010, leg. I. Belousov, I. Kabak ( ZISP, MSPU, cIB, cIK) ; 2♂ 4♀ —S Sichuan, in pass Pingchuan – Yanyuan , 27 o 34’16’’N 101 o 44’07’’E, h~ 3555 m, 21.07.2011, leg. I. Belousov, I. Kabak ( ZISP, MSPU, cIB, cIK) ; 1♂ —S Sichuan, NW Pingchuan , 27 o 41’18’’N 101 o 46’06’’E, h ~ 2745 m, 15.07.2011, leg. I. Belousov, I. Kabak ; 1♂ —S Sichuan, W Pingchuan , 27 o 40’07’’N 101 o 44’04’’E – 27 o 39’09’’N 101 o 43’31’’E, h ~ 3555 m, 18.07.2011, leg. I. Belousov, I. Kabak (both MSPU) ; 1♂ 4♀ —S Sichuan, S Yanyuan, Chuandongzi massif, ~ 27 o 21’05’’N 101 o 30’26’’E, 3200 m, 8–19. VI .2017, leg. Reuter (cChR).

References. CHINA: Yunnan Prov. —Ta-Li-Fou, Djo-Kou-La ( Horn 1926); Yulongxueshan, Likiang [= Lijiang], 2750 m ( Acciavatti & Pearson 1989); Lijiang, Yulong snow Mnt., 3300 m; Lijiang, Yulong snow Mnt., Baishui vill., 27 o 08’N 100 o 14’E, 2900–3500 m (both Shook & Wu 2007).

Redescription. TL = 9.6–10.8 (mean = 10.25) mm in males (Fig. 12), 9.0–11.6 (mean = 10.57) mm in females.

F IGURES 11–13. Cylindera (Parmecus) spp., males, habitus: 11— C. (P.) dromicoides ; 12— C. (P.) armandi ; 13— C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., holotype.

Head bright metallic copper-bronze with golden or golden-green reflection, green-bronze with light purpletinge or green/green-blue with golden-cooper luster; genae bronze, in some specimens with distinct golden-cooper reflection, with light bluish-green or golden-green luster along bottom edge of the eye; supraorbital area with one long seta on anterior margin and one rarely two setae on posterior margin. Antennae extend backwards to the basal third of elytra; scape besides a long apical seta with four–ten (mean = seven) additional short stout setae ( Figs 16 , 22–23 , 75); the 2 nd antennomere with one–six (mean = four) short white seta; the 3 rd antennomere with 7–15 (mean = ten), while the 4 th antennomere with four-ten (mean = seven) short stout white setae except long and thin apical ones.

Labrum unidentate with a single medial tooth ( Fig. 22 ), rarely indistinctly tridentate ( Fig. 23 ), transverse, LW/ LL = 2.14–2.58 (mean = 2.40) in females, and 2.5–2.9 (mean = 2.69) in males ( Fig. 74 ), with 8–11 (mean = nine) long submarginal setae. Maxillary palpi light brown with dark metallic tinged two apical joints, labial palpi yellow with metallic bronze-green apical joint.

Pronotum indistinctly longitudinal ( Figs 73–74 ), PL/PW = 1.0–1.11 (mean = 1.05), convex, with lateral sides practically straight in males and weakly converged to the base in females, dense wrinkled in the center with well developed anterior and posterior transversal grooves and thin midline. Pronotal disc cooper-bronze, bronze-green or bluish-green with purple or golden-green reflection, with bright purple-bronze V-shaped strip along midline and some coloured vertical strips along midline best visible in greenish specimens ( Figs 30–31 ). Mesepisternum of females finely wrinkled on anterior surface with relatively short smoothly sinuate coupling sulcus ending by small oval pit; wings undeveloped.

Elytra elliptical, slightly dilated in apical third in males and distinctly dilated in apical third in females, EL/EW = 1.53–1.74 (mean = 1.65) in females, and 1.71–1.84 (mean = 1.76) in males ( Fig. 73 ); shoulders sharply sloping, EW/EHW = 1.60–1.95 (mean = 1.76); scutellum cooper-bronze or green with cooper-golden tinge; elytral disc cooper-bronze, bronze, cooper-green or green with bright metallic reflection; external side of velvety black impunctate area with two protuberances like short basal portion of humeral lunula and narrow long oblique apical portion of middle band; suture bright cooper-bronze, golden-bronze, golden green or green with purple or cooper-purple inner area; epipleura metallic bronze; apical margins narrowly rounded before suture; sutural spine undeveloped; white elytral pattern as long sublateral band extending from sub-humeral area to the apex ( Figs 36–37 ).

Abdominal sternum black, 1 st and 2 nd with light bronze or golden-green tinge laterally, 3 rd– 5 th with bluish or greenish-blue reflection and very narrow dark-brown posterior margin, 6 th dark brown with light metallic tinge; 1 st sternum entirely striated, 2 nd finely wrinkled on lateral sides, 3 rd– 5 th with sparse short soft white setae mainly on lateral sides and six long setae along posterior margins.

AL = 3.1–3.4 (mean = 3.3) mm, with slightly tapered pointed apex ( Fig. 49 ). Internal sac (in lateral view) situate at right angle (ca 90 o) relative to aedeagus ( Figs 53 , 63 ), VA—clearly prominent, VLL—medium-sized, BLL and BLR—poorly developed, the angle between B and tube of the internal sac acute, ca 40 o, f —short and broad with slightly tapering apex, sh —large, sh-ar —relatively long, with acute apex, distinctly visible in frontal view, ag —well sclerotized ( Figs 53 , 58 , 63 , 68 ).

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Sichuan).

Notes. Previously, C. armandi was known only from the Chinese province of Yunnan ( Puchkov & Matalin 2003, 2017; Shook & Wiesner 2006; Shook & Wu 2007; Wu 2011), but now its presence in Sichuan Province, China, can be confirmed for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 8–10. Lectotype of Cicindela armandi Fairmaire, 1886, female (photos by Alain Drumont); 8—dorsal view; 9—right lateral view; 10—type labels.

FIGURES 14–17. Head of males (top view) of Cylindera spp.: 14—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 15—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 16—C. (P.) armandi; 17—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., paratype.

FIGURES. 18–25. Labrum and mandibles of Cylindera spp.: 18–19—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 20–21—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 22–23—C. (P.) armandi; 24–25—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n.; 18, 20, 22, 24—males; 19, 21, 23, 25—females; 24—holotype; 25—paratype.

FIGURES 72–75. Morphometric features of Cylindera (Parmecus) spp.: 72—correlation of elytra length and width; 73—relation of the proportions of pronotum and elytra; 74—relation of the proportions of pronotum and labrum (rhombes—C. (P.) dromicoides; quadrates—C. (P.) armandi; circles—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. nov.; open symbols—females, solid symbols—males); 75—the variation in number of scape setae: A—C. (P.) armandi, B—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n. (n—number of observations; small quadrate—mean; large rectangle—mean ± SD; whiskers—range min-max excluding the outlier values; significantly different means are marked with different lower case letters—according to Mann-Whitney U-test, p <0.05: U = 30.5, z = 4.94, p = 0.00).

FIGURES 26–33. Pronotum of Cylindera spp.: 26–27—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 28–29—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 30– 31—C. (P.) armandi; 32–33—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n.; 26, 28–33—males; 27—female; 32—holotype; 33—paratype.

FIGURES 34–39. Right elytron of Cylindera (Parmecus) spp.: 34–35—C. (P.) dromicoides; 36–37—C. (P.) armandi; 38–39— C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n.; 34, 36, 38—males; 35, 37, 39—females; 38—holotype; 39—paratype.

FIGURES 46–51. Aedeagus, left view of Cylindera spp.: 46—C. (Cylindera) germanica; 47—C. (C.) delavayi; 48—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 49—C. (P.) armandi; 50–51—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n.; 50—holotype, 51—paratype.

FIGURES 52–56. Internal sac, left view of Cylindera spp.: 52—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 53—C. (P.) armandi; 54—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., paratype; 55—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 56—C. (C.) germanica. The abbreviations of humps and sclerites see in the text.

FIGURES 62–66. Internal sac, right view of Cylindera spp.: 62—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 63—C. (P.) armandi; 64—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., paratype; 65—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 66—C. (C.) germanica. The abbreviations of humps and sclerites see in the text.

FIGURES 57–61. Internal sac, frontal view of Cylindera spp.: 57—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 58—C. (P.) armandi; 59—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., paratype; 60—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 61—C. (C.) germanica. The abbreviations of humps and sclerites see in the text.

FIGURES 67–71. Internal sac, ventral view of Cylindera spp.: 67—C. (Parmecus) dromicoides; 68—C. (P.) armandi; 69—C. (P.) mosuoa sp. n., paratype; 70—C. (Cylindera) delavayi; 71—C. (C.) germanica. The abbreviations of humps and sclerites see in the text.