Mecodema jacinda
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| Mecodema jacinda | |
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| Dorsal view of specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Mecodema |
| Species: | M. jacinda |
| Binomial name | |
| Mecodema jacinda Seldon & Buckley, 2019 | |
Mecodema jacinda is a large-bodied ground beetle endemic to Maungatautari Sanctuary, Waikato, New Zealand. It is the largest species of Mecodema found on Maungatautari, which also has the medium-sized M. curvidens inhabiting the forest. It is named after former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.[1]
Differing from all other North Island Mecodema species by:
- vertex smooth, vertexal groove defined by a few obsolescent punctures;
- the pronotal carina broad the entire length with 8–12 setae each side;
- interval 7 strongly convex in apical ⅓ (very distinctive);
- the shape of the apical portion of the penis lobe.[2]
