Platysmodes
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae
Name
Platysmodes Fauvel, 1903:231 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Sphodrosomus gambeyi Fauvel 1882, by monotypy.
Description
Head. Clypeo-ocular sulci long, well impressed, divergent; mentum emarginate, sides slightly divergent, paramedial pits moderate size, deeply impressed; median tooth bifid; paraglossae small, without elongate setae at apex; ligular sclerite with two seta on apical margin; maxillary palpifer with one basal seta; antennae filiform, with three basal segments glabrous. Thorax. Pronotum elongate cordiform, margins sinuate basad, two marginal setae; pro-, meso- and metasterna glabrous; proepisternum smooth; elytra fused, without distinct border medially at base, nine well impressed striae, very short tenth stria at level of plica, apicolateral plica large and visible, parascutellar stria short, very shallowly impressed, not connected to stria 1, angular base of stria 1 present, shallowly impressed, parascutellar punctures present at base of stria 2, no discal punctures, interval 7 sharply raised throughout its length, interval 8 slightly raised in the basal half, other intervals slightly convex becoming flatter apicad; hind wing reduced; anterior tarsi of male with three basal segments expanded and squamose beneath, all tarsi dorsally glabrous. Abdomen. Ventrites 3-6 without sulci; aedeagus (fig. 22) ostium dorsal, oriented left side up in repose; right paramere long, tip attenuate, left short, rounded with small membranous denticle at apex; female reproductive tract (fig. 23) without dorsolateral bursal lobe, elongate spermatheca broadly attached laterally at base of common oviduct, spermatheca with appended gland, spermatheca with digitiform diverticulum near base, without spermathecal gland duct diverticulum.
New Caledonian species
Platysmodes gambeyi (Fauvel 1882) [type IRSNB!]
=Sphodrosomus gambeyi Fauvel 1882
Generic distribution
New Caledonian precinctive.
Taxon Treatment
- Will, K; 2011: Taxonomic review of the Pterostichini and Loxandrini fauna of New Caledonia (Coleoptera, Carabidae) ZooKeys, 147: 337-397. doi
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