Chlaenioctenus
Creators: name: Liu, Ye
name: Liang, Hongbin
name: Kavanaugh, David H.
name: Yang, Maofa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Chlaenioctenus

description: Key to the species of subgenus Chlaenioctenus
1 Femora wholly black (Figs. 10, 15).............................................................................................................................. 2
- Femora more or less yellow in the middle portion (Figs. 2, 4, 6, 8, 12)....................................................................... 4
2 Elytron with a yellow spot in the middle (Fig. 9), intervals glabrous in the middle .................................................... 3
- Elytron with a yellow spot at apical third, intervals wholly pubescent (Figs. 13, 14); pronotum pubescent, with metallic green lustre at sides (Figs. 32, 33). China (Jiangxi)..................................................... C. freyi Jedliċka, 1960
3 Elytral intervals with a row of punctures at each lateral side (Fig. 37); pronotum very finely punctate (Fig. 31). Myanmar ............................................................................................................................... C. pectinipes Bates, 1892
- Elytral intervals with irregular punctures at each lateral side; pronotum coarsely punctate (based on original descrip- tion and photo). Thailand .................................................................................................. C. bilyi Kirschenhofer, 2009
4 Elytron with a yellow spot in the middle (Figs. 5, 7) ................................................................................................... 5
- Elytron with a yellow spot at apical third (Figs. 1, 3) or behind the middle (Fig. 11) .................................................6
5 Pronotum glabrous. India (Assam) ........................................................................................... C. eneides Bates, 1892
- Pronotum pubescent (Fig. 30); elytral intervals pubescent (Fig. 36). China (Yunnan) ......... C. rotundithorax sp. nov.
6 Elytral intervals glabrous in the middle, pubescent laterally only................................................................................7
- Elytral intervals wholly pubescent (Fig. 35); pronotum pubescent (Fig. 29); genae pubescent (Fig. 20). China (Tai- wan) .............................................................................................................................................. C. piligenys sp. nov.
7 Pronotum coarsely punctate......................................................................................... C. sehnali Kirschenhofer, 2008
- Pronotum finely punctuate (Fig. 34); interval sparsely pubescent (Fig. 39). Myanmar (Kachin).................................. ........................................................................................................................... C. schillhammeri Kirschenhofer, 2003
description: Published as part of Liu, Ye, Liang, Hongbin, Kavanaugh, David H. & Yang, Maofa, 2010, Key to species of the subgenus Chlaenioctenus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Chlaeniini: Chlaenius), with description of two new species, pp. 15-28 in Zootaxa 2397 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193988