FNZ 53 - Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) - Morphology and terminology
Larochelle, A; Larivière, M-C 2005. Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae). Fauna of New Zealand 53, 160 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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ISBN 0-478-09369-1 (print),
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Published 04 Jul 2005
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/5A8BF6BE-EA73-4476-8C81-E4F00709AC9B
Morphology and terminology
The main diagnostic features of Harpalini are: body usually rather stout, with relatively short appendages; head with a single pair of supraorbital setiferous punctures; mandibles usually relatively short, without setae in scrobes; posterior angles of pronotum usually without a setiferous puncture; elytral apex neither truncate nor crossed subapically; median lobe of aedeagus with basal bulb well developed in most taxa, shaft usually strongly arcuate; parameres of aedeagus usually short and broad, conchoid (shell-like) or ovate, similar in shape with right paramere usually smaller.
A more detailed description of the tribe based on New Zealand representatives is available on page 24. Figures 1–31 provide a basic understanding of the morphological structures used to describe and identify Harpalini genera and species. A glossary of technical terms is also provided (Appendix A, p. 89).