Cosmodela indica Klícha & Wiesner 2021, new status
Creators: name: Klícha, Miroslav
name: Wiesner, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Cosmodela
Cosmodela indica

description: 3. Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux, 1893), new status   
 Type depository. Lectotype ♀ (Fig. 3) in MNHN.   
 Type status. Lectotype ♀, designated here. Type labels: “ Assam / H. B. [handwritten]”; “ v. indica / Fleut. type [handwritten]”; “ v. indica Fleut. [handwritten]”; “ LECTOTYPUS / Cosmodela indica / (Fleutiaux, 1893) / ded. Klícha & Wiesner, 2021” [printed, red]; (Fig. 3).   
 Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 17–19 mm. Habitus is robust and convex. The dominant colour is deep bright green to blue with no red reflections (Fig. 12–14). Some specimens show light golden tone in elytral sutural and marginal bands as well as on pronotum and head. This tone is more visible on specimens from Assam, while specimens from Meghalaya show darker tones of green and blue. Head: broad, coarsely striate between eyes, forehead with deep wrinkles, clypeus waved in the center, metallic deep bright green and blue, sometimes with subtle golden reflections; labrum wide with broad carina, black with two wide light-yellow patches in the central part, divided by the carina, with six long white setae. Genae coarsely striate, deep bright blue and green, the rear part lightly white setose. Pronotum: with shallow wrinkles, more bevelled backward, the sides not so rounded as in C. barmanica; the base is considerably narrowed; pronotal disc glabrous, proepisterna with few long white bristles. Elytra: slightly widened posteriorly, gradually curved at the apical part towards the sutural line, in ♀♀ the curve is slightly waved; the basic colour is satin deep greenish blue, the sutural and marginal bands as well as the base and extension line situated on the first quarter of elytra are bright blue and green, in some specimens with slight golden tone as mentioned above; the marginal bands create a regular line from the base up to the elytral apex, the extension line is fully joined to the marginal band incorporating the first elytral macula. Each elytron has a white humeral dot and three white elytral patches, the first one, located in the extension line is reduced to a tiny dot, the central one is extended to a short, transverse band and the apical one is irregularly rounded. Epipleura bluish green. Ventral aspect: metallic blue green, partly white setose, abdominal sternites black with green and blue reflection, legs dark blue with bright green and violet reflections, trochanters metallic black. Aedeagus: size approx. 5,2 mm (Fig. 19); the upper back side rises in a continuous curve to the top, then descends slightly to the step in the last third of the aedeagus, behind which it goes in a short, horizontal line to a beak-like bend up to the rounded apical end; the lower part goes almost horizontally to the apical end, slightly curved in the center.   
 Distribution. It is the most restricted species of this group found only in the NE India, namely in Assam and Meghalaya states.   
 Records. NE India: Meghalaya State: W. Garo Hills, Balphakram N.P., 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ (JWWC); Tura, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (OSJC); Khasi hills, 1 ♀ (MKPC), 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (MJOC); Assam state: Umrongbo, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (JWWC).
description: Published as part of Klícha, Miroslav & Wiesner, Jürgen, 2021, Taxonomic revision of Cosmodela duponti (Dejean), Cosmodela barmanica (Gestro), new status, and Cosmodela indica (Fleutiaux), new status (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae), pp. 1-9 in Insecta Mundi 2021 (879) on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5352270