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)
54 E. Kirschenhofer or rounded, legs black or partly reddish brown, elytral apex completely glabrous (i.e. without spurs or setation). Two more species belonging to this group were described from the Philippines by TLAN & DEUVE (2007). In Brachinus chinensis CHAUDOIR, 1850 (a widely distributed species in Southeast Asia) the apical elytral margin has minute setae. I have examined a male (compared to the type from Coll. Oberthür in MHNP) from Mae Hong Song province, Thailand (Fig. 41). The median lobe of the aedeagus is illustrated in Figs 7-8. List and distribution of the the unicoloured black or brownish black species of Brachinus WEBER, 1801 from Asia Brachinus chinensis CHAUDOIR, 1850 - China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar. Brachinus dawnaensis KIRSCHENHOFER, 2003 - Myanmar. Brachinus lombokensis sp. n. - Indonesia: Lombok. Brachinus melancholicus SCHMIDT-GOEBEL, 1846 (holotype in NMP, examined) = caligatus BATES, 1890 (holotype, Fig. 42, in MNG, examined). - Myanmar. Brachinus merkli KIRSCHENHOFER, 2003 - Malaysia: Sabah. Brachinus nigerrimus (JEDLICKA, 1935), stat. n. (Pheropsophus ) - Philippines. Brachinus orestes KIRSCHENHOFER, 2003 - Myanmar. Brachinus philippinensis TLAN et DEUVE, 200~ — Philippines: Manila. Brachinus piceus CHAUDOIR, 1876 - Philippines. Brachinus solidipalpis TIAN et E)EUVE, 2007 — Philippines: Manila. On the unicoloured black Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) MAINDRON, 1906 species of the Palearctic, Himalayan and Oriental regions (Pheropsophus aptinoides species group) Remarks - Shared morphological characters of the subgenus (additional characters of the genus Pheropsophus are not mentioned here): pronotum cordiform or elongated, elytra ribbed, strongly narrowing at base, apical margin obliquely truncated to middle, dorsum unicoloured black (in Ph. infantulus some specimens with a reddish yellow elytral spot; in Ph. nepalensis a small reddish elytral spot often indicated), head unicoloured black (or with small reddish spot between eyes in Ph. infantulus, or with bilateral reddish yellow spot anteromediad of eyes in Ph. prophylax, or head completely yellow in Ph. aptinoides ); epipleura above metepisternum usually as wide as or wider than outer interval, rarely narrower (Ph. aptinoides). Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 102, 2010
