Pseudoodes subcoriaceus Guéorguiev & Liang 2020, comb. n.
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, Borislav
name: Liang, Hongbin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Pseudoodes
Pseudoodes subcoriaceus

description: 2. Pseudoodes subcoriaceus (Chaudoir, 1882), comb. n.
(Figs 3 A–E, Table 2)
Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882: 362 (type locality: ‘Malacca’ [state Malacca of Malaysia]).
References.
Oodes subcoriaceus: Andrewes 1930: 239 (‘Malay Peninsula.’); Lorenz 1998: 305; Lorenz 2005: 326.
Oodes (Oodes) subcoriaceus: Csiki 1931: 1011 (‘Malacca’).
Type material. Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir: holotype ♀, ‘ Malacca [y, h] // Oodes subcoriaceus. Chaud. m. [brawn, h; by M. De Chaudoir] // Museo Genova Malacca coll. Castelnau [w, h/p] // HOLOTYPUS ♀ Oodes subcoriaceus Chaudoir, 1882 [r, h/p] // Museo Genova coll. Castelnau [w, p]’ (MCSN).
Other material examined. None.
TME: 1 specimen. TGE: none.
Diagnosis. The species is readily separated from other species of the “ cribristernis ” group by its larger size, more than 15 mm, metepisternum as long as wide and its coadunation with epipleuron located in the middle, as well as smaller PW/HW and PW/PL, and slightly larger EL/EW.
Description. Habitus. Specimens of large size (BL: 15.8 mm, BW: 6.0 mm), with elongate, subconvex body (Fig. 3A). Ratios and measurements. See Table 2. Color and luster. Body black, appendages piceous to rufopiceous. Integument moderately shiny, without iridescence. Punctuation. Dorsal surface without punctuation; pro-, meso- and metepisternum as well as pro- and metasternum strongly and densely punctate at sides (prosternum stronger punctate than in P. cribristernis and P. vicarius); abdominal ventrites 1–5 at sides and near middle, and ventrite 6 at apex densely punctate. Head. More than three quarters as wide as pronotum (Table 2). Mentum tooth truncate, with distinct paramedial border (Fig. 3C). Thorax. Pronotum (Fig. 3B) with sides slightly rounded toward posterior angles (PW/PB: 1.05); maximum width at posterior third; laterobasal impressions indistinct, poorly defined; base feebly sinuate; anterior angles rounded, weakly projected. Prosternum with median longitudinal sulcus shallow, wide, more distinct than in other species of “ cribristernis ” group; prosternal process elliptic, with rounded apex (Fig. 3D). Metepisternum as long as wide (MA/MM: 1.03), with lateral margin straight to slightly convex, coadunation with epipleuron short, located near middle (Fig. 3E). Elytra. Apical sinuation weak, poorly defined. Basal margin distinct laterally, forming a minute denticle at shoulder, disappearing medially at level of stria 3. Parascutellar striola distinct, punctate, less impressed than other striae; striae impunctate. Intervals 1–7 subconvex, interval 8 more convex than others. Legs. Metacoxal basal sulcus extended to lateral fourth. Male genitalia. Unknown. Female genitalia. Not examined.
Distribution. Oriental Region: Malaysia (‘Malacca’).
Bionomics. Nothing is known about the bionomics of this species.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, Borislav & Liang, Hongbin, 2020, Revision of the Palaearctic and Oriental representatives of Lachnocrepis LeConte and Oodes Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with special account on Chinese species, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 4850 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4850.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4407072