Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 102. (Budapest 2010)
Kirschenhofer, E.: New and little-known species of Carabidae from the Middle East and Southeast Asia Coleoptera, Carabidae: Lebiini, Brachinini)
New and little-known species of Car abidaefrom Asia (Coleoptera, Carbidae) 33 1500 m, 27.-31.7.1993, leg. Schuh" (1 male, NMW); "Malaysia - W, Pahang, 30 km E of Ipoh, 1500 m, Cameron Highlands, Tanahrata, 7.-9.1.1999, leg. P. Cechovsky" ( 1 female, CAD); "Malaysia-W, Pahang, 30 km E of Ipoh, 1500 m, Cameron Highlands, Tanahrata, 14.-17.III. 1998, leg. P. Cechovsky" (1 female, CAD). Description - Habitus: Fig. 24. Length 5.5-6.0 mm, width 2.1-2.3 mm. Body stout and oval, elytra rather strongly convex. Colour and lustre: head black; pronotal disc blackish brown, marginal groove widely lighter reddish-yellow; elytra blackish brown, marginal groove narrowly lighter reddish yellow, each with two yellowish short elongated spots covering intervals 3 to 8, anterior spot just before middle, posterior spot just behind middle; mandibles blackish brown; palpi, antennae and tarsi reddish yellow, femora and tibiae darkened; pronotal and elytral epipleura lighter brownish; underside black. Head: with large, strongly protruding eyes; temples rather long, attenuating to neck in straight, declivous line; mandibles long and slender, attenuating to acute apex; head without distinct diagnostic features; mentum simple, deeply incised with a short projection medially; ligula elongated, shortly rounded in front, with short bristles; labrum longer than wide, indistinctly emarginated in front, with short brushes. Pronotum: 1.53 times as wide as long, laterally evenly rounded, distinctly wider than head; anterior angles shortly rounded, distinctly projecting; anterior margin distinctly roundly sinuate; posterior angles acute, weakly obtuse, sides narrowing basad in even arch; base on each side weakly declivous; marginal groove wide, slightly broadened at base; basal impressions rather wide, strongly depressed, not sharply delineated; median line very finely incised, hardly reaching anterior margin or base. Elytra: broadly oval, convex; marginal groove narrow but slightly wider in anterior third; apex declivous; sides mildly extended preapically. Prosternai process narrow, apically narrowing, deflexed, collared; metepisterna smooth, clearly longer than width in front, with furrow-like depression; first and second abdominal ventrite rather strongly depressed; elytral epipleura wide in front, with distinct furrow-like depression, from middle onward strongly narrowing; abdomen smooth, glabrous, anal ventrite of male without particular characteristics. Median lobe of aedeagus preapically extended on left in dorsal view, apex rounded with left side sharply deflexed to apex, right side evenly deflexed (Fig. 1). Microsculpture: head densely chagreened, with silky lustre; pronotum and elytra with vague and very fine transverse reticulation, very shiny, smooth. Distribution - Malaysia: Cameron Highlands. Etymology - The species is named after its geographical origin. Comparisons - This species differs from all other congeners by the numerous small, elongated spots on the first and last third of elytra. Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 102, 2010
