Pseudomorpha vicina

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Pseudomorpha vicina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Beetle
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Pseudomorpha
Species: P. vicina
Binomial name
Pseudomorpha vicina
Notman, 1925

Description

Form somewhat broad, moderately convex. Color dark piceo-cas- taneous. Integuments very finely alutaceous, rather moderately shining. Head very finely, sparsely, and indistinctly punctured. Occipital row of punctures just traceable. Thorax subimpunctate medially, distinctly punctate laterally. Elytra with nine or more somewhat irregular rows of fine punctures, alternate rows of slightly larger punctures. Head rather small, slightly more than half the width of thorax, about twice as wide as long. Preocular lobes not distinct; clypeal suture faintly impressed. Antennae rather short, scarcely surpassing the anterior coxae. Thorax about twice as wide as long, fully as wide as any part of elytra, rather strongly narrowed anteriorly, with sides only moderately arcuate. Base not margined at any point. Elytra about two and one-half times the length of thorax. Sides distinctly narrowed posteriorly; nearly straight. Apices rather feebly truncate; outer angles broadly rounded; inner angles also rather broadly rounded. Length, 7.5 mm. ; width, 3.2 mm. Male,—Densely pubescent spots on the third and fourth ventral segments about one-seventh the width of the segment.


Distribution

Type.—Male. San Diego County, California. Jacumba July 1, 1907. G. H. F. Paratype (male) Sutro, Nevada. Collection of H. C. Fall.

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