Stenaptinus consularis subsp. flaviceps Fedorenko 2021, ssp.n.
Creators: name: Fedorenko, D. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenaptinus
Stenaptinus consularis
Stenaptinus consularis flaviceps fedorenko

description: 3a. Stenaptinus consularis flaviceps Fedorenko, ssp.n.
Figs 8, 18, 33–34, 57, 71, 93–94.
MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ (ZMMU) and paratypes (SIEE): 10♂♂, 15♀♀ labelled ‘ Vietnam, Kon Tum Prov [ince]., Kon Plong Distr., 14°43´N / 108°19´E, Dak Khe River, h= 1030 m, 8-23.IV.2015, D.Fedorenko leg. ’; Paratypes: ♂, same data except 4–12.VI.2016; ♂ ♀, ‘ Vietnam, Nghe An Prov., 109 km WNW of Vinh, Pu Mat Nature Reserve, 18°57´22´´N / 104°41´05´´E, h~ 200 m, 11– 25.IV.2018, A.Abramov leg.’; ♀, ‘ Vietnam, Ha Tinh Prov., Ke Go Nature Reserve, 18°06´30´´N/ 106°01´, h= 40 m, 7–14.V.2015, A.Abramov leg.’; Paratype ♀, (MSPU), ‘ Vietnam, C[entral]. Annam, prov. Quan [g] Binh, Minh Hoa [= Quy Dat] distr., Ke Bang [National Park] env. Yen Hop, 16.IV.1999, leg. S. Kruskop’.
Additional material (SIEE): ♂ ♀ labelled ‘ Gia Lai Province, ~ 55 km ENE of Pleiku, 14º17´24´´N / 108º27´47´´E, h= 570 m, dak Lar Pa River, riverbank, 8–20.V.2017, D. Fedorenko leg. ’.
Genitalia examined in ten males and one female.
DIAGNOSIS. See the key and description below.
DESCRIPTION. As for the nominotypical subspecies except the following: BL 15.6–19 mm. Dorsal pale pattern extensive (Figs 71, 93–94): entire head yellow, occasionally with a vague black V-shaped patch; pronotum yellow except base, apex and lateral margins; elytral humeral spot larger, elytral median fascia wide, reaching lateral margin, extended along side to a widely pale apical margin and also slightly basad, with lateral margin pale pale or narrowly infuscated in apical half. Sometimes 1–2 setules behind supra-ocular seta.
Pronotum barely wider, PW/PL 0.94–1.03 (1.0), and slightly larger, PW/HW 1.02–1.10 (1.05), broadest a third from apex, PLw/PW 0.27–0.41 (0.34); sides subsinuate a fifth from base. Base wider, PB/PA 1.08–1.15 (1.12), basal angles mostly very slightly obtuse and blunt.
Elytralong,EL/EW1.52–1.66(1.59),EW/EL1.56–2.08 (1.87).
Sternite VII mostly bisetose, sometimes trisetose, in male.
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. Northern and Central Vietnam from Nghe An to Kon Tum and Gia Lai provinces.
NAME. Refers to the entirely pale head as a distinctive feature of the new subspecies.
HABITATS AND HABITS. Of the specimens taken by the author, most were hand collected by floodland pools (often together with specimens of S. agnatus) and the other few on river banks. In the Kon Plong District, the adults were found to be frequent in close vicinity to a light-trap, but no specimen was attracted to the light.
COMMENTS. Two specimens, male and female, from Gia Lai Province belong to the new subspecies and match well the diagnosis, except that the former has color pattern more similar to that of the nominotypical subspecies. Hence the two specimens are not included in the type series.
At least two of totally three specimens mentioned in the description of Pheropsophus javanus v. ruficeps Jedlička, 1964, nom. nud. [Jedlička, 1964: 532], one from Laos and the other from central Vietnam, belong to this new subspecies rather than to any other species.
description: Published as part of Fedorenko, D. N., 2021, Stenaptinus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) of Vietnam. Note 2, pp. 25-42 in Russian Entomological Journal 30 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.30.1.05, http://zenodo.org/record/10920063