Indopatrobus bashtai A.S & D.W & A & H 2006, spec. nov.
Creators: name: A. S
name: D. W
name: A, W
name: H, E
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Indopatrobus
Indopatrobus bashtai

description: Indopatrobus bashtai spec. nov. (figs 1, 3, 5, 7, 9-13, 19)   
 T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype (DW): NE India, W Arunachal Pradesh, Sela Pass, SE of Tawang, 27 o 30' N 92 o 06' E, 4200-4400 m, 29.-31.V.2004, R. Businský. Paratypes: 8, 8 (JB), 2, 2 (DW), 2, 2 (AZ), 2 (PB), same locality, together with holotype. 22, 12 (NHMB), 5, 2 (DW), 5, 2 (AZ), same locality but: 4400 m, 31.V.2004, L. Dembický.   
D e s c r i p t i o n: Habitus as in fig. 1. Body dark brown to nearly black, shiny, sutural area of elytra often somewhat paler, antennae, mandibles, and legs dark brown to brown, palpi reddish-brown. Total length 7.3-9.1 mm.  
Head broad, ovate, 0.71-0.77 times wider than pronotum; eyes rather large, weakly convex; tempora longer than eye diameter, moderately to weakly tumid; neck-constriction moderately deep; frontal furrows rather deep, moderately divergent and broadened posteriad, forming 2 shallow but distinct foveoles at vertex; surface mostly smooth, somewhat wrinkled-punctate in frontal furrows only, neck-constriction with rather fine and sparse punctures; 2 setiferous pores punctures present on each side, anterior one situated in supraorbital groove at mid-eye level, and posterior, represented as a large setiferous foveole, beside neck-constriction; besides the long anterodorsal seta antennomere 1 seldom bears 1-3 additional minute setae; tooth of mentum without peculiarities, bifid (fig. 3), epilobes narrow, median area of mentum strongly elevated, lateral lobes separated from it by deep furrows, forming basally distinct pore-like foveoles, submentum with 2 setae on each side.  
Pronotum transverse, subcordate, 1.18-1.28 times wider than long, moderately convex; front margin almost straight to faintly rounded; sides widely rounded, arcuate almost from front to hind angles, with narrow explanate margin; basal margin usually nearly straight, seldom strongly rounded; front angles distinct, hardly projecting anteriad, angulately rounded; hind angles obtuse, pointed, indistinctly to prominently denticulate, basal carina absent; anterior transverse impression shallow, finely and sparsely punctate; basal foveae small, rather shallow, rugous and finely punctate; disk faintly wrinkled to smooth, rugous-punctured in basal area, median line obliterated anteriorly and indistinct amongst basal puncturation; 1 marginal setae, basal seta present in hind angles.  
Front margin of metasternum narrowly bordered; pro- and mesepisterna, mesosternum densely and coarsely punctate, punctures being large and rather deep, metepisterna and lateral sides of metasternum covered by similarly large but much sparser and smoothed punctures, median area of metasternum smooth, lateral areas of sternites 1 and 2 (urites 3 and 4) coarsely rugous-punctured, other sternites finely and smoothly wrinkled. Metatarsomere 5 with 2-3 setae beneath.  
Elytra oblong-ovate, 1.53-1.59 times longer than wide and 1.37-1.46 times wider than pronotum, widest in apical one-third, contracting both anteriorly and posteriorly, strongly convex; sides rounded, narrowly bordered, margin gradually tapering behind; humeri rather broad and prominent, roundly angulate and markedly denticulate; striae distinct, basally rather coarsely punctate; intervals faintly convex, interval 3 with 3, seldom 2 setiferous pore punctures adjoining stria 3; marginal series highly variable in number of pores and extent of reduction of setae, composed of 6-11 large umbilicate pores, forming 3 more or less distinct groups, basal (2-5), median (0-1), and apical (3-6); microsculpture composed of fine transverse wrinkles and nearly isodiametric meshes, intervals rather densely covered by fine and sparse microscopic punctures. Hind wings reduced.  
Aedeagus (figs 9, 10) sharply bent at base, tube somewhat inflated and curved medially, strongly asymmetric; apical lamella flattened dorso-ventrally, nearly straight, hardly curved ventrally at very apex, faintly reflexed and tuberculate dorsally (viewed laterally), gradually attenuating towards apex (viewed dorsally); armature of endophallus composed of rather large poorly sclerotized bilobed proximal copulatory piece, its distal ending gradually transforming to membranous folded structures; left paramere (fig. 11) larger than right one (fig. 12), their apical projections short to rather long, gradually tapering towards apex bearing 2-4 (usually 3) long apical and 0-2 minute to rather long subapical setae. ventrite 9 as in fig. 13.  
Female reproductive tract as in fig. 19; pronounced distal sclerite of female reproductive tract absent, membranous folders between gonocoxites 1 (gonobasis) near gonocoxal ramus only with some traces of sclerotization; bursal sclerite rather small and very fine, even distinct, ovate, ca. 0.4 mm in diameter.  
E t y m o l o g y: The genitive patronym honors our colleague and friend Jaroslav Bašta (Brno) for providing the interesting and important material of Patrobini this paper deals with.
description: Published as part of A. S, D. W, A, W & H, E, 2006, New taxa of the tribe Patrobini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the East Himalayas, pp. 991-1008 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on pages 994-996, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5434686