Macrocheilus elegantulus Burgeon 1937
- Dataset
- Afrotropical ground beetles of Macrocheilus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) description of four new species and faunistic notes
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Carabidae
- genus
- Macrocheilus
- species
- Macrocheilus elegantulus
description
Figs. 5 g, 7 b
discussion
Remarks. The species is known only from Democratic Republic of the Congo (Burgeon 1937; Häckel & Farkač 2013). During a visit to MRAC in 1992, we had the opportunity to check a female specimen of this species. Later, the study of a male specimen deposited in the same museum allows providing the diagnosis of its genitalia for the first time. Male genitalia (Fig. 7 b). Median lobe long, enlarging gradually from apex to basal bulb, apex long straight and thin (lateral view), acuminated (dorsal view), ostium with one pair of large scaled and slightly sclerotized stripes on dorsum, bending downwards and backwards; left paramere large and rounded, without any distal or marginal tooth.
distribution
Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo.
materials_examined
Studied material. 1 male: “ (Jligonsera) 06 \ (Thi?) \ Ex. Zool. Mus. Berlin ” (without date) (MRAC); 1 female: “ Zaire: Lualaba \ Ruwe 20.6.1957 \ V. Allard ” (MRAC).