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)
60 E. Kirschenhofer Comparisons - Differences to the other monochromatic black Ph. (Stenaptinus ) species as in identification key below. List and distribution of the species of the Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) aptinoides species group Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) akhaensis sp. n. (Fig. 48) - Thailand Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) aptinoides CHAUDOIR, 1876 - East India (no closer locality is known) Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) andrewesi JEDLICKA, 1963 (Fig. 43) - India: Assam, Meghalaya Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) beckeri JEDLICKA, 1930 (Fig. 44) - China: Sichuan, Fujian, Hubei Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) guanxiensis sp. n. (Fig. 49) - South China: North Guangxi Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) infantulus BATES, 1892 (Fig. 46) - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) minahassae HELLER, 1903 - Indonesia: North Sulawesi Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) nepalensis sp. n. (Fig. 45) - Nepal Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) prophylax HELLER, 1903 - India: Manipur Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus) scythropus ANDREWES, 1923 (Fig. 51) - India: Assam = melancholicus CHAUDOIR, 1876, not SCHMIDT-GOEBEL, 1846 = dissolutus ANDREWES, 1923 Pheropsophus tamdaoensis sp. n. (Fig. 47) - Vietnam Pheropsophusyunnanensis sp. n. (Fig. 50) - China: Yunnan Identification key to the species of: the aptinoides species group of Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) 1 Species from India 2 Species from other regions 5 2 Elytral epipleura above metepisterna narrower than outer interval; head entirely yellowish; abdominal ventrites 3 and 4 impunctate; pronotum a little shorter than head, posterior angles rectangular but not sharp; femoral apices brownish inside; body length 20 mm Pheropsophus (Stenaptinus ) aptinoides CHAUDOIR - Elytral epipleura above metepisterna as wide as or wider than outer interval; head bilaterally with a short, yellowish, often elongated spot at level of anterior margin of eye; rarely frons slightly paler 3 Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 102, 2010
