Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi

Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Beetle
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Platyrhopalopsis
Species:	P. badgleyi
Binomial name
	Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi; Fowler, 1912

Diagnosis

Description

Platyrhopalopsis badgleyi, sp. n. A very distinct, broad, rather shining species, not so small and polished as the preceding, and with the elytra more oblong and less convex, distinctly but finely punctured, and with a small curved yellowish-red patch on each behind the middle and meeting at the suture, forming a V-shaped patch with the arms recurved, and the point directed towards the apex of the elytra: these patches are, apparently, sometimes divided or obsolete; the head is rather longer than in the preceding, and the club of the antennae is less circular; the pronotum is very transverse, but longer than in P. mellyi, oval, with the sides rounded, and with faint traces of a depression in the middle; the elytra form an almost perfect broad rectangular figure, and, although convex as a whole, they are depressed on the disc; the sides of the pronotum and the elytra are thickly set with short yellow setae; the club of the antennae and the disc of the pronotum are also pubescent, and towards the

Distribution

Bhutan, India

Biology

REFERENCES

Fowler, W.W. (1912). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. General Introduction and Cicindelidae and Paussidae. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 467–468.

Nagel, P. (2006) Ant nest beetles of the Carnegie Museum (Coleoptera:Carabidae: Paussinae: Paussini). Annals of Carnegie Museum, 75,181–202.

Wasman, E. 1904. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Paussiden, mit biologischen und phylogenetischen Bemerkungen. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 25:1–82