Omphreus
Creators: name: Ćurčić, Srećko B.
name: Waitzbauer, Wolfgang
name: Zolda, Pamela
name: Ilić, Nastas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Omphreus

description: Key to Omphreus from Serbia
1 Head well constricted behind eyes..............................................................................................................2
- Head moderately constricted behind eyes..................................................................................................3
2 Pronotum as long as broad (Serbia, Montenegro) ................................ O. (O.) bischoffi Meschnigg, 1934
- Pronotum longer than broad ...................................................................................................................... 4
3 Mandibles widened proximally; first antennomere sharply widening distally; fore pronotal angles rounded and hind pronotal angles almost right; lateral pronotal margins sinuated posteriorly; lateral pronotal furrows narrow and shallow; lateral elytral margins sub-parallel; four setiferous punctures in the seventh interstrial space; median lobe short, narrower distally; parameres more rounded; basal bulb widened distally; gonocoxites IX smaller and thinner, each with an acute apex (Serbia) ...... O. (O.) ovcarensis n. sp.
- Mandibles not dilated proximally; first antennomere gradually widening distally; fore pronotal angles protracted and hind pronotal angles obtuse; lateral pronotal margins distinctly concave posteriorly; lateral
pronotal furrows wide and deep; lateral elytral margins arcuated; five elytral median setiferous punctures in the seventh interstrial space; median lobe long, wider distally; parameres more elongated; basal bulb not widened distally; gonocoxites IX longer and wider, each with a rounded apex (Serbia) ....................... .................................................................................................................... O. (O.) serbooccidentalis n. sp. 4 Lateral pronotal margins basally toward hind angles somewhat narrowed or almost parallel, not divergent (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania) ...................................... O. (O.) morio Dejean, 1828 (- First antennomere club-like widened distally, mostly shorter than the following three antennomeres together; lateral pronotal margins rounded basally; elytra short (Serbia) .................................................... .......................................................................................................... O. (O.) morio serbicus Winkler, 1933 - First antennomere gradually widened distally, as long as the following three antennomeres together; lateral pronotal margins parallel basally; elytra elongated (Serbia, Albania).................................................... .................................................................................................. O. (O.) morio albanicus Apfelbeck, 1906)
- Lateral pronotal margins basally toward hind angles divergent (Macedonia, Serbia) ................................ .................................................................................................................. O. (O.) gracilis Apfelbeck, 1918
description: Published as part of Ćurčić, Srećko B., Waitzbauer, Wolfgang, Zolda, Pamela & Ilić, Nastas, 2008, Two new high-altitude species of the genus Omphreus Dejean (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) from Serbia, pp. 20-26 in Zootaxa 1926 on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274585