FNZ53 - Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae) - Morphology and terminology
Larochelle, A.; Larivière. 2005. Harpalini (Insecta : Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae). Fauna of New Zealand 53 , 160 pages. (ISSN 0111-5383; no. 53). ISBN 0-478-09369-1. 4 July 2005.
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).
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