Dolichoctis Schmidt-Goebel

Hunting, Wesley & Yang, Man-Miao, 2019, A taxonomic review of the pericaline ground-beetles in Taiwan, with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini), ZooKeys 816, pp. 1-164 : 82-83

Genus Dolichoctis Schmidt-Goebel

Dolichoctis Schmidt-Goebel, 1846: 62; Chaudoir 1869: 245; Csiki 1932: 1383; Jedlička 1963: 356; Habu 1967: 99; Darlington 1968: 15; Moore et al. 1987: 293; Lorenz 2005: 459; Baehr 1999: 124; Baehr 2006: 39; Baehr 2007: 79; Baehr 2013: 249; Baehr 2013b: 149.

Type species.

Dolichoctis striata Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 (monotypic).

Type locality.

Burma.

Recognition of Taiwanese species of Dolichoctis

s. str.

Color. Various.

Microsculpture. Elytra with shallow, transverse sculpticells; ventral surface of head with microsculpture transverse, visible at 50 ×; prosternum, proepipleuron, mesepisternum and metepisternum with sculpticells forming a shallow transverse to almost isodiametric mesh.

Macrosculpture and pilosity. Dorsum of head smooth.

Fixed setae. Two pairs of supraorbital setae; clypeus with two lateral setae; labrum with six setae along apical margin; one pair of suborbital setae; pronotum with two pairs of setae, one at base of lateral margin and one on lateral margin at pronotum max width; 16 lateral (umbilical) setae in interval 9; ventral surface with fine, scattered setigerous punctures, two setae on each of abdominal sterna III to VI; two setae along apical margin of sternum VII in males, females with four setae near apical margin of sternum VII.

Head. Mandibles curved at apex; setose towards apex, visible when viewed laterally; mentum with no tooth; eyes convex; palpi cylindrical, elongate, setose.

Hind wings. Macropterous.

Legs. Tarsal claws denticulate, three to four denticles per claw; males with adhesive vestiture ventrally, two rows of squamo-setae at apex of tarsomeres 1-3 of fore-leg.

Female genitalia. Gonocoxite 2 (gc2) wide at base, narrowing and curving outwards from mid-length; two lateral ensiform setae (les) and one dorsal ensiform seta (des) present. Sensory furrow, furrow pegs and associated nematiform setae not observed.