Mecodema crenicolle
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| Mecodema crenicolle | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Mecodema |
| Species: | M. crenicolle |
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| Mecodema crenicolle Laporte de Castelnau, 1867[1] | |
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Mecodema crenicolle is an endemic species of ground beetle from New Zealand.
This species was described by François-Louis Laporte de Castelnau, a French naturalist in 1867. The type specimen is in the Genoa Museum, Italy.[2]
Description
Mecodema crenicolle is a medium-large ground beetle with a length of 22–29 mm. As a member of the ducale group of Mecodema species, the pronotum carina is strongly crenulated and outer striae are coarsely punctured with star-shaped asetose punctures. These punctures are irregularly placed and deeper in the outer striae. A distinguishing character of M. crenicolle from its sister species, M. crenaticolle[3] is that the punctures in elytral stria 7 are larger than stria 8 and cannot be distinguished at the base of the elytra.[2]