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6B0687C5A666FFF4ADD3FA67E3F89E3F.text	6B0687C5A666FFF4ADD3FA67E3F89E3F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus Bonelli 1810	<div><p>Key to Indian species of Brachinus Bonelli, 1810</p> <p>1. Elytra with spots or transverse bands...................................................................... 2</p> <p>- Elytra without spots or transverse bands, monochrome black/bluish black/brownish black, only the suture sometimes reddish yellow............................................................................................. 12</p> <p>2. Elytra yellow; three black markings of various shapes on elytra (Fig. 1g)................................... B. pictus</p> <p>- Elytra black/blue black/brown black; with reddish yellow spots or transverse band on elytra.......................... 3</p> <p>3. Elytra with reddish yellow median transverse band and smaller triangular reddish yellow spot on the apex..... B. longipalpis</p> <p>- Elytra with only reddish yellow spots, without median transverse bands.......................................... 4</p> <p>4. Elytra with 6 distinct spots (3 on each elytron).............................................................. 5</p> <p>- Elytra with 4 spots (2 on each elytron)..................................................................... 8</p> <p>5. Head and pronotum rough, densely punctated and pubescent with closely placed setae................... B. hexagrammus</p> <p>- Head and pronotum smooth, sparsely punctated, pubescent with widely spaced setae................................ 6</p> <p>6. Pronotum longer than broad; elytra with reddish yellow lateral margin starting from the basal spot and continuing to apex, eventually forming an apical reddish yellow band................................................ B. sexmaculatus</p> <p>- Pronotum broader than long; elytra without reddish yellow lateral margin and apical band............................ 7</p> <p>7. Elytral apex forming a re-entrant angle (Fig. 5a), elytral basal spot large, reaching the humerus; pronotum with basal margin broadly and lateral margin narrowly brownish black................................................. B. eucosmus</p> <p>- Elytral apex rounded without forming a re-entrant angle (Fig. 5b), elytral basal spot small, not reaching the humerus; pronotum with apical, basal and lateral margins broadly black...................................................... B. reyi</p> <p>8. Pronotal apical margin with anterior lateral projection (Fig.5c)................................................. 9</p> <p>- Pronotal apical margin without anterior lateral projection (Fig.5d)......................................... B. charis</p> <p>9. Elytra with reddish yellow lateral margin................................................................. 10</p> <p>- Elytra without reddish yellow lateral margin............................................................... 11</p> <p>10. Pronotum densely punctated, pubescent with closely placed setae......................................... B. illotus</p> <p>- Pronotum glabrous........................................................................... B. tetracolon</p> <p>11. First spot on elytra aligned towards base, elytral apex not forming re-entrant angle (Fig. 5b)................... B. geiseri</p> <p>- First spot on elytra placed in the midregion, elytral apex forming a strong re-entrant angle (Fig. 5a)........ B. tetragrammus</p> <p>12. Elytra unicoloured; suture same colour as the elytra......................................................... 13</p> <p>- Elytra bicoloured; suture reddish yellow.................................................................. 21</p> <p>13. Head with two reddish yellow spots on frons.................................................. B. andamanensis</p> <p>- Head concoloured, without spots........................................................................ 14</p> <p>14. Elytra blue-black............................................................................ B. pallidipes</p> <p>- Elytra pitch black/pitch brown.......................................................................... 15</p> <p>15. Pronotum and elytra punctated, pubescent................................................................. 16</p> <p>- Pronotum and elytra smooth, glabrous........................................................ B. chaudoirianus</p> <p>16. Antennal segment 3 subequal to segments 1 and 2 combined.................................................. 17</p> <p>- Antennal segment 3 shorter than segments 1 and 2 combined.................................................. 20</p> <p>17. Pronotum concoloured................................................................................ 18</p> <p>- Pronotum bi-coloured................................................................................. 19</p> <p>18. Pronotum dark brownish black with deep median groove deep, reaching the basal and apical margins; elytral apex rounded, not forming a re-entrant angle (Fig. 5b)................................................................ B. hazardi</p> <p>- Pronotum reddish yellow with median groove shallow, not reaching the basal and apical margins; elytral apex straight, forming a re-entrant angle (Fig. 5a)......................................................................... B. inops</p> <p>19. Pronotum with acute posterior angles (Fig. 5c, 5e), basal margin broadly brownish black; elytra convex........... B. dryas</p> <p>- Pronotum with obtuse hind angles (Fig. 5d), both lateral and basal margins broadly brownish black; elytra subparallel............................................................................................... B. limbicollis</p> <p>20. Pronotum rugose, punctate, median groove shallow; elytral striations weak............................... B. sordidus</p> <p>- Pronotum smooth, sparsely punctate, median groove deep; elytral striations deep................ B. devagiriensis sp. nov.</p> <p>21. Elytral sutural line with narrow reddish yellow colouration................................................... 22</p> <p>- Elytral sutural line with broad reddish yellow colouration.................................................... 23</p> <p>22. Antennal segment 3 subequal to segment 1 and 2 combined; pronotum longer than broad, median furrow deep, reaching the basal and apical margins; elytral apex forming faint re-entrant angle (Fig. 5a) with broad membranous border...................................................................................................... B. flaviventris</p> <p>- Antennal segment 3 shorter than segment 1 and 2 combined; pronotum wider than long, median furrow shallow, not reaching the basal and apical margins; elytral apex not forming a re-entrant angle (Fig. 5b) but with a narrow membranous border................................................................................................ B. vigilans</p> <p>23. Elytra with reddish yellow lateral margins................................................................. 24</p> <p>- Elytra without reddish yellow lateral margins.............................................................. 27</p> <p>24. Antennal segments 1–2 reddish yellow, remainder brownish, segment 3 subequal to segments 1 and 2 combined......... 25</p> <p>- Antennal segments 1–4 reddish yellow, remainder brownish, segment 3 shorter than segments 1 and 2 combined........ 26</p> <p>25. Elytra brownish black.......................................................................... B. limbellus</p> <p>- Elytra black................................................................................. B. cinctellus</p> <p>26. Pronotum length equal to width, base straight................................................... B. pokharaensis</p> <p>- Pronotum longer than broad, base bisinuate.......................................................... B. stevensi</p> <p>27. Pronotum with hind angles pointed, at right angles (Fig. 5f)........................................... B. suturellus</p> <p>- Pronotum with hind angles blunt, obtuse (Fig. 5d).......................................................... 28</p> <p>28. Pronotum disc with posterior fourth parallel, hind angles slightly obtuse.................................. B. peltastes</p> <p>- Pronotum disc with posterior fourth divergent, hind angles very obtuse.................................. B. modestus</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A666FFF4ADD3FA67E3F89E3F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A665FFF5ADD3F8AEE6829A86.text	6B0687C5A665FFF5ADD3F8AEE6829A86.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus andamanensis Tian & Deuve 2015	<div><p>Brachinus andamanensis Tian &amp; Deuve, 2015</p> <p>Brachinus andamanensis Tian &amp; Deuve, 2015: 235</p> <p>Type locality. India: Andaman.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Tian &amp; Deuve (2015).</p> <p>Description. Length 15.0 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum and elytra brownish black; two reddish yellow spots on the frons; antennae with segments 1–4 light reddish brown, remaining segments dark brown; legs dark reddish yellow.</p> <p>Head with frons and vertex smooth, neck punctated and wrinkled; eyes only slightly protruding; antennae reaching the middle of elytra, with segment 3 longer than segments 1 and 2 combined.</p> <p>Pronotum smooth, disc convex, glabrous; basal and apical margins straight without sinuation, apical margin with anterior projection on lateral sides; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex and posterior fourth straight, hind angles almost forming a right angle, blunt, not projecting laterally; median groove shallow, deep and wide just before base; anterior and posterior sulcus deep, well impressed; lateral beads broad.</p> <p>Elytra with humerus obsolete, base narrowed, widest just before apex; apex obliquely truncate, rounded, not forming any re-entrant angle; elytra smooth with dense setae along the lateral and apical portion of disc, with central region of disc less pubescent.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Andaman Islands.</p> <p>Remarks. This species is recorded only from the Andaman Islands (India), which are distant from the Indian mainland. It is different from all other Indian Brachinus with the presence of two reddish yellow spots on frons (head).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A665FFF5ADD3F8AEE6829A86	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A664FFF5ADD3FC8BE6919DAD.text	6B0687C5A664FFF5ADD3FC8BE6919DAD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus charis Andrewes 1923	<div><p>Brachinus charis Andrewes, 1923</p> <p>= Brachinus scitulus Chaudoir, 1876 [non Schmidt-Göbel]</p> <p>Brachinus charis Andrewes, 1923: 41; 1930a: 49</p> <p>Brachinus scitulus Chaudoir, 1876: 59; Andrewes, 1930a: 49</p> <p>Type locality. India: Tamil Nadu: Tharangambadi, coll. Dr. Dohrn.</p> <p>Type depository. Type lost.</p> <p>Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Andrewes (1923).</p> <p>Description. Length 5.5 mm. Head, pronotum and narrow lateral margin of elytra (except the base) reddish yellow with head having a darker shade; first two segments of antennae yellow, rest brown; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra greyish black; scutellum dull brick-red; elytra with two reddish yellow spots.</p> <p>Head broad, frons and middle of vertex smooth, neck slightly wrinkled, with sparse pubescence, rest glabrous; shallow rounded foveae between eyes; antennae not reaching the middle of the elytra.</p> <p>Pronotum as long as broad, punctated, pubescent; lateral bead narrow; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third straight, lateral portion of the apical margin projecting forwards.</p> <p>Elytra longer than broad, convex; weakly striated, intervals slightly convex, finely granulated, moderately pubescent; surface with two spots, the anterior spot oval, middle spot rounded, apical spot absent; apex brown.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Tamil Nadu: Tharangambadi.</p> <p>Remarks. The type species, which was presumed to be in BMNH, is lost or misplaced (Hrdlička 2018 pers. comm.).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A664FFF5ADD3FC8BE6919DAD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A664FFF2ADD3F9E7E53799DD.text	6B0687C5A664FFF2ADD3F9E7E53799DD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson 1908	<div><p>Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908</p> <p>= Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Brachinus chaudoirianus Jakobson, 1908: 410; Hrdlička 2003: 215; Hrdlička, 2017: 476</p> <p>Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876: 71; Motschulsky, 1864: 214; Ballion, 1871: 324</p> <p>Type locality. India: Himachal Pradesh: Shimla, coll. Dr. Bacon.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Chaudoir (1876).</p> <p>Description. Length 8.5–9.5 mm. Head, pronotum, antennae reddish brown; elytra black; legs pale yellowish red.</p> <p>Head stout, broad, glabrous, smooth; neck almost smooth. Eyes less protruding.</p> <p>Pronotum as long as wide, glabrous, not exceeding the width of head with eyes; laterally convex, moderately narrowed before the base, hind angles not pointed, not projecting laterally.</p> <p>Elytra convex, with faint, wide striations, having equally raised intervals; disc smooth with slight punctuations over the intervals.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Shimla.</p> <p>Remarks. This species was described as Brachinus atripennis Chaudoir, 1876, but diagnosed as a homonym and renamed as Brachinus chaudoirianus by Jakobson (1908).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A664FFF2ADD3F9E7E53799DD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A663FFF2ADD3FE77E5889DE8.text	6B0687C5A663FFF2ADD3FE77E5889DE8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus cinctellus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus cinctellus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 1h</p> <p>Brachinus cinctellus Chaudoir, 1876: 70; Andrewes, 1930a: 49; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; 2017: 476</p> <p>Type locality. Bangladesh: Dhaka, coll. M. S. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled: “‘Deccan’, coll. Stevens, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 6.7 mm. Head, pronotum, first two segments of antennae, palpi, scutellum, region around scutellum, sutural line, lateral line of elytra (except the base) and legs reddish yellow (with legs having a lighter shade); segments 3–4 of antennae reddish brown, rest dark brown; eyes and elytra black. Pronotum with median groove and lateral margins dark brown.</p> <p>Head as long as wide, shiny, vertex smooth, frons, neck and region around eyes wrinkled, sparsely pubescent; apical segment of palpi tapering, pointed; eyes protruding; frontal foveae moderately deep; antennae short, not reaching the middle of elytra, segment 3 shorter than segment 1.</p> <p>Pronotum flat, punctated, pubescent, fine wrinkles on each side of median groove; disc with apical margin sinuate, lateral region of apical margin not projecting forward, basal margin sinuate; disc laterally with anterior twothirds convex, posterior third slightly divergent, hind angles blunt, obtuse, very slightly projecting laterally; median groove shallow; lateral bead broad.</p> <p>Elytra with matte surface, punctated, pubescent, base narrowed, humerus straight, corners rounded; apex without re-entrant angle; scutellum narrow, pointed; striations weak, rounded, intervals broad; both striations and intervals covered by setae; sutural line broadest at base, gradually narrowing till the middle of elytra, extending till the apex.</p> <p>Distribution. BANGLADESH: Dhaka. Pakistan (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).</p> <p>Remarks. Brachinus cinctellus Chaudoir, 1876 and B. limbellus Chaudoir, 1876 are very closely related species which, according to Chaudoir (1876) are “…without any appreciable difference in the conformation of the external morphology, but different in size and colouring of the abdomen and the absence of spots on the antennae.” We consider the variation in size and colouration of the abdomen as minor variations, and spots on the antennae of B. cinctellus are not visible, which may be due to decolouration over the years.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A663FFF2ADD3FE77E5889DE8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A663FFF3ADD3F9A5E30C9AD1.text	6B0687C5A663FFF3ADD3F9A5E30C9AD1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynolomus) dryas Andrewes 1936	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynolomus) dryas Andrewes, 1936</p> <p>Fig. 1a</p> <p>= Brachinus stenomus Andrewes, 1932</p> <p>Brachinus dryas Andrewes, 1936: 65; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; Hrdlička, 2017: 476</p> <p>Brachinus stenomus Andrewes, 1932: 141; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; Hrdlička, 2017: 476</p> <p>Type locality. India: Assam: Eastern Duars, coll. H. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled: “Type, ‘E. Dooars’, coll. H. Stevens, ‘ Brachinus stenomus ’ ‘ Brachinus dryas nom. nov. Andrewes 1936 p.65’, det. H. E. Andrewes”.</p> <p>Description. Length 6.5–7.5 mm. Colour reddish brown (rust-coloured); venter, elytra, margins of pronotum (base rather widely), mes- and metepisterna and apical joints black; legs brownish red. Microsculpture isodiametric, very clear on the elytra, weak on head and pronotum.</p> <p>Head with frontal foveae shallow, subrugose; neck sparsely punctuate, surface otherwise smooth; eyes moderately prominent; apical segment of palpi narrowed and subtruncate at apex; antennae reaching middle of elytra.</p> <p>Pronotum cordate, narrower than head, wider than long; extremities truncate, base as wide as apex, sides round- ed in front and rather strongly sinuate at about basal fourth, both front and hind angles fairly sharp, the latter slightly acute and slightly projecting laterally; median groove short, moderately impressed, punctate at extremities, basal foveae rather shallow, surface sparsely and finely punctate.</p> <p>Elytra convex, two and a quarter times as wide as pronotum, two-fifths longer than wide, contracted in front; humerus straight, corners rounded; elytra widest just before apex, apex with a re-entrant angle, the pale membranous margin very narrow, glabrous; striae weak, without any rows of punctures, intervals moderately raised but hardly costate, surface finely but not very closely punctate.</p> <p>Body covered with rather scanty grey pubescence, slightly thicker on the elytra.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Sikkim: Gopaldhara; Assam: Eastern Duars.</p> <p>Remarks. Brachinus dryas is endemic to the Eastern Himalayas. It was described as Brachinus stenomus Andrewes, 1932, which was later found to be a homonym and thus changed to Brachinus dryas Andrewes, 1936.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A663FFF3ADD3F9A5E30C9AD1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A662FFF3ADD3FD73E4869DB1.text	6B0687C5A662FFF3ADD3FD73E4869DB1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus eucosmus Andrewes 1937	<div><p>Brachinus eucosmus Andrewes, 1937</p> <p>Fig. 1i</p> <p>Brachinus eucosmus Andrewes, 1937: 571; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; 2017: 476.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun, coll. J. C. M. Gardner and G. D. Bhasin.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled “Type, Dehra Dun, U.P., coll. J. C. M. Gardner, 20.III.1933, ‘Ex. Descented termite mound’, ‘2328’, det. H. E. Andrewes, Brit.Mus.1937.548.”</p> <p>Description. Length 18.0–19.0 mm. Head and pronotum brownish red; base and lateral margin of pronotum brownish black; palpi, antennae and legs reddish brown; elytra black with three reddish yellow spots.</p> <p>Head convex; wide, shallow frontal foveae; surface finely punctate; eyes prominent; antennae stout, almost reaching the middle of elytra.</p> <p>Pronotum convex, cordate, wider than head, wider than long; surface finely punctate, becoming coarse along base; base as wide as apex; lateral bead narrow; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds strongly convex, posterior third strongly sinuate, hind angles acute, sharp, projecting laterally; median groove fine, deeper near base; transverse impression present, shallow, clear.</p> <p>Elytra convex, dilated behind, longer than broad, humerus rounded; apex with a re-entrant angle and glabrous membranous border; intervals convex with fine scattered punctures; three reddish yellow spots present, first fairly large, placed near to humerus and rounded, second irregularly rounded and just behind mid region, third small, oblique, near apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A662FFF3ADD3FD73E4869DB1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A662FFF0ADD3F99BE24799F9.text	6B0687C5A662FFF0ADD3F99BE24799F9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus flaviventris Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus flaviventris Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 2a</p> <p>Brachinus flaviventris Chaudoir, 1876: 68; Andrewes, 1930a: 49.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Tamil Nadu: Coromondel Coast, coll. Guerin.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Coromandel’, coll. Guerin, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 5.0– 6.5 mm. Head, pronotum, antennae, scutellum and sutural line reddish brown; eyes black; elytra bluish black; legs pale reddish yellow.</p> <p>Head broad, wider than long, punctate, pubescent, neck rough, wrinkled; eyes protruding; antennae stout, short, not reaching the middle of elytra, first four segments of lighter colour, segment 3 equals the combined length of segments 1 and 2, apical segment elongate oval.</p> <p>Pronotum longer than broad, rough, wrinkled, pubescent; disc with apical and basal margin sinuate, with apical outwardly sinuate and basal inwardly sinuate, lateral edge of the apical margin not projecting forward; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third divergent, hind angles blunt, acute, slightly projecting laterally; lateral bead narrow, lateral margin brownish black; median groove deep, deepest at basal and apical region; basal transverse foveae present, shallow.</p> <p>Elytra long, sub-parallel, glossy, punctated, pubescent; humerus prominent, narrow, rounded; apex without reentrant angle, having membranous border; very weak, broad, rounded striations, narrow intervals.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Maharashtra: Nagpur; Tamil Nadu: Coromondel coast</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A662FFF0ADD3F99BE24799F9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A661FFF0ADD3FE5CE7B19CFA.text	6B0687C5A661FFF0ADD3FE5CE7B19CFA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Cnecostolus) geiseri Hrdlicka 2019	<div><p>Brachinus (Cnecostolus) geiseri Hrdlička, 2019</p> <p>Brachinus geiseri Hrdlička, 2019: 80.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Pune; coll. P. V. Joshi</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH</p> <p>Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Hrdlička (2019).</p> <p>Description. Length: 9.8 mm. Head, pronotum and mandibles rusty red; antennomeres 1–4 yellow, 5–11 yellow brown; elytra black with four yellow spots; legs yellow.</p> <p>Head longer than wide, frons (anteriorly), neck (entirely) punctuate, sparsely pubescent.</p> <p>Pronotum longer than wide; apical margin straight with lateral region projecting forward, basal margin sinuate; disc convex, slightly matt, punctated pubescent, laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth divergent; median groove uniformly deep, reaching the apical and basal margins.</p> <p>Elytral disc matte, punctate, pubescent; base narrowed, apex wide, widest just before apex; humerus with corners rounded; apex without re-entrant angle.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Maharashtra: Pune.</p> <p>Remarks. This species is close to B. illotus Chaudoir, 1876 among the described Indian Brachinus. Brachinus illotus differs by having a smaller form, elytra having lateral reddish yellow margins, elytral apex straightly truncate, reddish yellow spot near to elytral apex smaller, and flattened pronotal disc. For further description of the species see Hrdlička (2019).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A661FFF0ADD3FE5CE7B19CFA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A661FFF1ADD3FB54E5F798E4.text	6B0687C5A661FFF1ADD3FB54E5F798E4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus hazardi Andrewes 1930	<div><p>Brachinus hazardi Andrewes, 1930</p> <p>Fig. 2b</p> <p>Brachinus hazardi Andrewes, 1930b: 42; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; 2017: 477</p> <p>Type locality. India: Bengal: Darjeeling, coll. Maj. R. W. G. Hingston, 14.iii.1924.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled “Type, N. India: Darjeeling, 5000 ft., 14.III.1924, coll. Maj. R. W. G. Hingston, ‘Everest Exp. Brit. Mus. 1924-386.’, det. H. E. Andrewes.</p> <p>Description. Length 8.5–9.0 mm. Head, pronotum and elytra pitch brownish black; scutellum brownish black; epistome, first four segments of antennae and legs reddish yellow; eyes black.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, vertex smooth, glabrous, frons and neck punctated, pubescent; eyes protruding; antennae slender, long, reaching the middle of elytra, segment 3 length equals combined length of segments 1 and 2, apical segment elongate-oval.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long, shiny, wrinkled, pubescent; disc with apical margin straight, lateral edge projecting forward, basal margin inwardly sinuate; disc laterally with anterior half convex, posterior half divergent, hind angles blunt, acute; median groove moderately deep, complete, connecting the apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow.</p> <p>Elytra convex, shiny, pubescent with dense yellow setae, base narrowed, humerus erased; apex without re-entrant angle, having narrow membranous border; scutellum pointed; striations clear, rounded, intervals narrow, layers of setae along the striations as well as intervals.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Sikkim: Gopaldhara; Bengal: Darjeeling.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A661FFF1ADD3FB54E5F798E4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A660FFF1ADD3FEAEE3779CB3.text	6B0687C5A660FFF1ADD3FEAEE3779CB3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Metabrachinus) hexagrammus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus (Metabrachinus) hexagrammus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 1c</p> <p>Brachinus hexagrammus Chaudoir, 1876: 55; Andrewes, 1930a: 49; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; 2017: 476</p> <p>Type locality. India: Bengal, coll. Dr. Bacon.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimens examined (n = 7). Syntype labelled “ Ind. Or. Bor. ’,coll. Dr. Bacon, det. Chaudoir ”; 5 specimens (2 males, 3 females) labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Ettimadai, Hand Picking, 08.IX.2015, coll. S.V. Akhil ”; 1 specimen labelled “ India: Gujarat: Anand, 17.XI.2017, coll. Thangavel ”.</p> <p>Description. Length 8.5–9.5 mm. Head, pronotum and antennal segments 2–11 reddish brown; antennal segment one, legs and six spots on elytra yellowish red; pronotum with brownish black lateral margins; scutellum reddish brown; eyes and elytra black.</p> <p>Head short, stout, rough, closely punctated, sparsely pubescent; neck highly wrinkled; eyes protruding; last segment of palpi narrowed and sub-truncate at apex; antennae short and stout, not reaching the middle of the elytra; length of antennal segment 3 equals the combined length of segments 1 and 2.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third slightly divergent; hind angles pointed, sharp, but not protruding laterally; disc with surface highly punctated, wrinkled, pubescent with distantly placed setae; median groove shallow but visible in the mid region of disc, erased near to base and apex of pronotum.</p> <p>Elytra broad, longer than wide, widest just before apex; scutellum pointed; humerus straight, corners rounded; apex straight, without re-entrant angle; striations broad, weak, shallow, rounded, clear towards base but faint towards apex, intervals shallow, narrow; surface highly punctated, densely pubescent; three yellowish red spots on each elytron, larger square shaped spot just below the humerus extending between the fourth and eighth striations, smaller, rounded spot just below the middle of elytra, oval shaped spot along the apical edge of elytra, not covering the apical edge.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bengal; Gujarat: Anand; Tamil Nadu: Ettimadai; Arunachal Pradesh; Himachal Pradesh; Kashmir; Sikkim, Uttarpradesh. BHUTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017). PAKISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A660FFF1ADD3FEAEE3779CB3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A660FFFEADD3FA9DE4669915.text	6B0687C5A660FFFEADD3FA9DE4669915.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus illotus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus illotus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 2c</p> <p>Brachinus illotus Chaudoir, 1876: 58; Vuillet, 1912: 17; Andrewes, 1930a: 49</p> <p>Type locality. Bangladesh: Dhaka (‘Deccan’), coll. M. S. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled: “‘Deccan’, coll. Stevens, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 6.5 mm. Head and pronotum reddish yellow; legs, spots on elytra, lateral margin of elytra (except the basal portion) and first four segments of antennae pale reddish yellow; eyes black; elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head slender, longer than broad, neck with fine setae, otherwise glabrous, frons, vertex smooth, shiny; frontal foveae shallow; eyes protruding; antennae long, slender, reaching the middle of elytra, segment 3 equals the combined length of segments 1 and 2.</p> <p>Pronotum narrower than head, wider than long, densely pubescent, smooth; disc with apical margin inwardly sinuate, without lateral sides projecting forward, basal margin straight; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third divergent, hind angles blunt, acute, slight lateral projection; median groove shallow; lateral bead narrow, with dark brown shade.</p> <p>Elytra long, narrow, subparallel, base narrowed, rounded, humerus erased, apex with less evident re-entrant angle, having membranous border; disc densely pubescent, covered with yellow setae; striations shallow, faint, rounded, intervals narrow; two reddish yellow spots, first elongate oval, placed near base, extending between fifth stria and lateral margin, second rounded, placed just after the mid region, a wide reddish yellow line running from the basal spot to apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Madhya Pradesh: Dr. Ambedkar Nagar. BANGLADESH: Dhaka. CAMBODIA: Phnom Penh. VIETNAM: Cochinchina.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A660FFFEADD3FA9DE4669915	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66FFFFEADD3FE3FE4879D7B.text	6B0687C5A66FFFFEADD3FE3FE4879D7B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynolomus) inops Andrewes 1932	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynolomus) inops Andrewes, 1932</p> <p>Fig. 1b</p> <p>Brachinus inops Andrewes, 1932: 142; Hrdlička, 2003: 215; 2017: 477.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Uttarakhand: Almora, coll. H. G. Champion.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimens examined (n = 4). Holotype labelled “ Type, ‘ India: W. Almora Du, Almora U. P’, Mar. ’19, coll. H. G. Champion, B.M.1932-27, det. H. E. Andrewes; 2 males, 1 female, labelled “ India: Karanataka: Kolar: Krishnarajapuram, 25.xii.2001, coll. Dr. Raghunathan ”.</p> <p>Description. Length 7.0–8.0 mm. Elytra, lateral borders of pronotum, metepisterna, and apical joints of venter black; head, pronotum and legs brownish red with head darker. Microsculpture isodiametric, distinct on elytra, indistinct on pronotum, invisible on head.</p> <p>Head with frontal fovea subrugose and moderately deep; sides of neck punctated, middle and front of vertex smooth; eyes moderately prominent; apical segment of palpi bluntly pointed; antennae long, slender, extending beyond the middle of elytra.</p> <p>Pronotum cordate, narrower than head, wider than long, base narrower than apex; disc punctate with lateral sides convex anteriorly, diverging posteriorly; basal and apical angles fairly sharp, basal angle projecting laterally; median groove fine, shallow medially and deeper at extremities; basal fovea moderately deep. Metepisterna length twice the width.</p> <p>Elytra convex, widest just before apex, longer than wide, highly contracted to base, slightly contracted to apex; humerus straight, corners rounded; apex with a re-entrant angle; pale membranous margin without long seta, having minute pale hairs; striae wide, shallow, without any rows of punctures, intervals moderately convex; disc densely punctate.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Tanakpur, Haldwani, Ranikhet, West Almora, Kumaon, Haridwar, River Sardah Gorge; Karnataka: Kolar: Krishnarajapuram.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66FFFFEADD3FE3FE4879D7B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66FFFFFADD3FAD5E44199DD.text	6B0687C5A66FFFFFADD3FAD5E44199DD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynidius) limbellus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynidius) limbellus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 2d</p> <p>= Brachinus clarescens Bates, 1892</p> <p>Brachinus limbellus Chaudoir, 1876: 70; Andrewes, 1923: 42; 1930a: 50; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 477</p> <p>Brachinus clarescens Bates, 1892: 395; Andrewes, 1928: 589; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 477</p> <p>Type locality. Bangladesh: Dhaka, coll. M. S. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Deccan’, coll. Stevens, ‘ suturiger ’ Chaudoir, ‘ limbellus’ Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 4.5–5.0 mm. Head, pronotum, sutural line, base of elytra and antennal segments 3–11 reddish brown; antennal segments 1–2, palpi and legs reddish yellow; elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head stout, as long as wide, smooth, glabrous; frontal foveae clear, moderately deep; eyes protruding; antennae short, stout, not reaching the middle of the elytra, antennal apical segment longest, segment 3 shorter than segment 1 and 2 combined.</p> <p>Pronotum as wide as long, punctated, pubescent; disc with apical and basal margins straight, lateral portion of apical margin slightly projecting forward; disc laterally with anterior 2/3rd convex, posterior 1/3rd divergent, hind angle blunt, obtuse, projecting laterally; median groove faint, superficial; lateral bead very narrow, dark brown.</p> <p>Elytra convex, base narrow, humerus straight, corners rounded, narrow, pubescent with closely placed setae; apex with a very faint re-entrant angle, having a membranous border; scutellum very small; lateral margin of disc lined with a flat, reddish yellow bead which increases in width towards apex; very weak striations; sutural colour extending to the apex, broadest at base, extending between first and third striae, gradually narrowed towards apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Assam; Bengal: Kolkata; Odisha: Puri; Maharashtra: Bandra; Tamil Nadu: Thiruchirapalli. SRI LANKA: Murunkan. BANGLADESH: Dhaka. MYANMAR: Rangoon, Senmigion, Palon, Magwe. PAKISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66FFFFFADD3FAD5E44199DD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66EFFFFADD3FE77E5179CB3.text	6B0687C5A66EFFFFADD3FE77E5179CB3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus limbicollis Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus limbicollis Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 2e</p> <p>Brachinus limbicollis Chaudoir, 1876: 67; Andrewes, 1930a: 50</p> <p>Type locality. Bangladesh: Dhaka, coll. M. S. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Deccan’, coll. Stevens, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 9.0 mm. Head, mid region of pronotum reddish brown; palpi, antennal segments 1–4, and legs reddish yellow; lateral sides of pronotum brownish black; eyes black; scutellum brownish black; elytra black with light brown shade.</p> <p>Head longer than broad, frons rough, vertex smooth, fine pubescence around the eyes, otherwise glabrous; frontal foveae shallow; eyes protruding; antennae long, reaching the middle of the elytra, antennal segment 3 equals the combined length of segments 1 and 2; last segment of palpi pointed.</p> <p>Pronotum as wide as long, punctated, densely pubescent, with fine yellow setae; disc with apical margin inwardly sinuate, basal margin straight, apical margin without lateral region projecting forward; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third divergent, hind angle blunt, acute; median groove shallow; lateral bead narrow.</p> <p>Elytra sub-parallel, long, densely pubescent with yellow setae; humerus narrow, straight, corners rounded; apex with very faint re-entrant angle, having narrow membranous border; scutellum small, pointed; striations weak, intervals shallow.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bihar: Pusa. BANGLADESH: Dhaka.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66EFFFFADD3FE77E5179CB3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66EFFFCADD3FA9DE4CA9A4D.text	6B0687C5A66EFFFCADD3FA9DE4CA9A4D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus longipalpis subsp. longipalpis longipalpis Wiedemann 1821	<div><p>Brachinus longipalpis longipalpis Wiedemann, 1821</p> <p>= Brachinus concinnus Bates, 1892</p> <p>Brachinus longipalpis longipalpis Wiedemann, 1821: 118; Dejean, 1825: 314; Chaudoir, 1876: 87; Andrewes, 1921: 167; 1930a: 50; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 477</p> <p>Brachinus concinnus Bates, 1892: 393; Andrewes, 1924b: 592; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 477</p> <p>Type locality. India: Bengal, coll. Dejean, Dr. Bacon.</p> <p>Type depository. ZMUC (Hrdlička 2019 pers. comm.)</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). 1 ex. labelled “ longipalpis wied. ‘Bengal Western’”.</p> <p>Description. Length 5.5–7.0 mm. Head, pronotum, first four segments of antennae, legs, markings on the elytra, scutellum, and region around scutellum reddish yellow, with head darker; eyes grey; elytra black; antennal segments 5–11 dark brown.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, smooth, shiny, only a small patch of setae around the eyes, otherwise glabrous; frontal foveae shallow; eyes protruding; antennae long, slender, reaching the middle of the elytra, segment 3 the longest, longer than segments 1 and 2 combined; last segment of palpi oval, pointed.</p> <p>Pronotum as long as wide, smooth, shiny, without any setae; disc with apical margin straight, lateral region of apical margin projecting forward, basal margin outwardly bi-sinuate; disc laterally with anterior half wide, posterior half parallel, hind angles pointed, forming right angles, not projecting laterally; median groove deep, reaching both apical and basal margin.</p> <p>Elytra convex, symmetrically rounded, flat, moderately pubescent, with yellow setae; humerus rounded; apex rounded without re-entrant angle; scutellum small, narrow, pointed; striations weak, broad, rounded, intervals broad, flatter but rounded, rows of setae covering both striations and intervals; two reddish yellow markings, first a transverse band, in the middle of elytra, beginning from the lateral margin, extending up to first striation, second a triangular one, with base of the triangle over the apex of elytra, a narrow reddish yellow line running laterally, starting just above the median band and extending till the tip of apex of elytra.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Sikkim: Teesta Valley; Uttarakhand: Almora, Dehra Dun, Tanakpur, Haldwani, Garhwal: Jumnagwar, Boxar, Dikhwala; Bengal. MYANMAR: Senmigion, Myenkyan, Rangoon. AFGHANISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017). PAKISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).</p> <p>Remarks. A species with unique markings on elytra, having a reddish yellow median transverse band similar to the related genus Pheropsophus Solier, 1833.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66EFFFCADD3FA9DE4CA9A4D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66DFFFCADD3FDC7E33C9E3A.text	6B0687C5A66DFFFCADD3FDC7E33C9E3A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynidius) modestus Schmidt-Gobel 1846	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynidius) modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846</p> <p>Fig. 2f</p> <p>Brachinus modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846: 73; Chaudoir, 1876: 69; Bates, 1892: 396; Andrewes, 1923: 42; 1930a: 50; Saha, 1992: 51; Hrdlička, 2017: 477.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Bengal: Kolkata.</p> <p>Type depository. NMPC.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Type labelled: “Bengal”.</p> <p>Description. Length 5.2 mm. Head, pronotum, legs, sutural line, antennal segments, palpi, scutellum and region around scutellum reddish brown; eyes grey; elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head stout, broad, wider than long, punctated, pubescent; vertex smooth, glabrous, frons, region around eyes and neck punctated, pubescent; eyes protruding; frontal foveae deep; antennal segments stout, short, not reaching the middle of the elytra, segment 3 shorter than segment 1.</p> <p>Pronotum slightly broader than long, punctated, densely pubescent; disc with apical margin straight, lateral region of apical margin not projecting forward, basal margin slightly sinuated outward; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angle obtuse, blunt, projecting laterally; median groove deep reaching both apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow, dark brown.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, punctated, densely pubescent, with golden brown setae; base narrow, rounded, humerus erased; apex without a re-entrant angle; scutellum very small, pointed; striations weak, rounded, intervals narrow, setae covering both striations and intervals; sutural colour extending till middle of elytra, widest near base where it extends between 1st and 3rd striae, narrowing gradually towards apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bengal: Kolkata. MYANMAR: Tharrawaddy. Prome. Toungoo. Rangoon. Moulmein. VIETNAM: Cochinchina. CHINA: Fujiyan (Hrdlička, 2017).</p> <p>Remarks. Comparison of the type specimens of B. modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846, B. peltastes Andrewes, 1931 and B. suturellus Chaudoir, 1876 shows that there is no significant variation between the three species other than the colour (elytra black in B. suturellus, pitch black in B. peltastes and brownish black in B. modestus) and size (5.2 mm in B. modestus, 6.0 mm in B. peltastes and 8.5 mm in B. suturellus). We have not synonymised Brachinus suturellus and B. peltastes with B. modestus as we are not certain how far the colour of the types have faded.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66DFFFCADD3FDC7E33C9E3A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66DFFFDADD3F914E7489AFD.text	6B0687C5A66DFFFDADD3F914E7489AFD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Neobrachinus) pallidipes Reitter 1919	<div><p>Brachinus (Neobrachinus) pallidipes Reitter, 1919</p> <p>= Brachinus stenoderus Andrewes, 1924 (non Bates)</p> <p>Brachinus pallidipes Reitter,1919: 137; Andrewes, 1930a: 51; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478; Ullah et al.. 2017: 178. Brachinus stenoderus Andrewes 1924a: 57; 1928: 589</p> <p>Type locality. India: Himachal Pradesh: Poo, coll. Fleischer.</p> <p>Type depository. Type in collection of A. Fleischer (Andrewes 1928)</p> <p>Description. Length 11.0 mm. First four segments of antennae, palpi and legs pale yellow; antennal segments</p> <p>5–11, head and pronotum yellowish red; scutellum brownish red; elytra bluish black; eyes black.</p> <p>Head narrow, longer than broad; surface smooth, glabrous; eyes large; last segment of palpi narrowed and sub-truncate at apex; antennae long, slender, reaching beyond the middle of elytra, with segment three the longest, segment 3 longer than segments 1 and 2 combined, segment 2 shortest.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow, longer than broad, glabrous, wrinkled; disc laterally convex with anterior half rounded and posterior half divergent; lateral bead present, having a darker brownish black shade; hind angles sharp, projecting laterally; median groove fine, shallow medially, deep towards base and apex.</p> <p>Elytra broad, slightly rounded, widest just before apex, apex and base narrow, apex rounded, without re-entrant angle; humerus straight, rounded at corners; striations weak, broad, rounded, striae 1 to 6 (counting suture as 1) clear, well impressed, intervals narrow; surface rough, wrinkled, highly pubescent.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Jammu &amp; Kashmir: Gurais valley; Himachal Pradesh: Pooh, Bashahr, Kangra; Uttarakhand: Almora, Dehra Dun, Tanakpur, River Sarda gorge. PAKISTAN: Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.</p> <p>Remarks. Brachinus pallidipes was misidentified by Andrewes (1924a) as B. stenoderus Bates, 1873, an entirely different species with a Japanese distribution (Andrewes 1928). The species with a Himalayan distribution is B. pallidipes.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66DFFFDADD3F914E7489AFD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66CFFFDADD3FD56E51C9E27.text	6B0687C5A66CFFFDADD3FD56E51C9E27.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus peltastes Andrewes 1931	<div><p>Brachinus peltastes Andrewes, 1931</p> <p>Fig. 2g</p> <p>Brachinus peltastes Andrewes, 1931: 518; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478</p> <p>Type locality. India: Dehra Dun: Dobhalwala, coll. H. E. Andrewes.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled “Dehra Dun: Dhobalwala, ‘ 2,304 ft. ’, H. E. Andrewes Coll. B.M. 1945-97, ‘bought from Staudinger &amp; Bang-Haas, 1930, det. H. E. Andrewes”.</p> <p>Description. Length 6.0 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum, region around scutellum, sutural line reddish brown; first four segments of antennae, palpi and legs pale reddish yellow; eyes grey; elytra black.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, shiny, glabrous, vertex smooth, frons, region around eyes and neck wrinkled; eyes protruding; last segment of palpi pointed; antennae stout, just reaching the middle of elytra; 3rd segment of antennae shorter than 1st and 2nd combined.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long, punctated, pubescent, shiny; disc with apical margin inwardly sinuate, lateral portion of apical margin not projecting forward, basal margin slightly outwardly sinuate; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth parallel, hind angle blunt, slightly obtuse, not projecting laterally; median groove deep, reaching the apical and basal margins; apical transverse furrow visible, shallow; lateral bead moderately wide, lateral margin dark brown.</p> <p>Elytra shiny, pubescent, covered with short yellow setae; base narrow, rounded, humerus obliterate; apex straight with less evident re-entrant angle, having a membranous border; suture not closed completely towards apex; scutellum small, pointed; striations weak, narrow, keel shaped, intervals broad setae covering both striations and intervals; sutural colour extending till middle of elytra, widest near base extending between 1st and 4th striae, narrowing gradually towards apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun: Dobhalwala.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66CFFFDADD3FD56E51C9E27	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66CFFFAADD3F969E5329C65.text	6B0687C5A66CFFFAADD3F969E5329C65.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Aploa) pictus (Hope 1833)	<div><p>Brachinus (Aploa) pictus (Hope, 1833)</p> <p>Fig. 1g</p> <p>= Brachinus figuratus Chaudoir, 1852</p> <p>Brachinus pictus Hope, 1833: 92; Brullé, 1834: 223; Chaudoir, 1876: 54; Bedel, 1914: 311; Andrewes, 1919: 202; 1924a: 57; 1930a: 51; Hrdlička, 2003: 212; 2017: 472; Ullah et al. 2017: 176</p> <p>Brachinus figuratus Chaudoir, 1852: 41; Hrdlička, 2003: 212; 2017: 476</p> <p>Type locality. India: Maharashtra: Pune, Sykes collection.</p> <p>Type depository. Type lost.</p> <p>Specimens examined (n=3). 2 exs., (1 male, 1 female) labelled “ India: Andhra Pradesh: Cudappah dt, ‘ 181m Alt’, 28.xi.04, coll. Dr. Prabhakar ”, det. S. V. Akhil; 1 ex.; (male) labelled “ India: Kerala: Chinnar, x.2011, coll. K. V. Vinod &amp; S. T. Raj, det. S. V. Akhil ”.</p> <p>Description. Length 12.4 mm. Head, pronotum, basic colour of elytra, scutellum, legs and venter reddish yellow. Eyes, three markings on elytra, abdominal lateral margins and posterior segments black; antennae reddish brown with first four segments pale red. Pronotum with median groove and lateral margins reddish brown.</p> <p>Head stout, as long as broad, glabrous, smooth, a patch of setae around the eyes; eyes prominent, protruding; neck smooth.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, as long as wide, smooth, few setae near to base and apex, otherwise glabrous, symmetrically wrinkled on both sides of median groove; lateral beads broad, prominent, disc with posterior two-thirds convex, basal third parallel, without projecting laterally; apical and basal margins straight with lateral edge of apical margin projecting forward; median groove deep, deepest at both ends, not reaching the apical and basal margins.</p> <p>Elytra longer than broad, slightly convex, pubescent, humerus straight, prominent, projecting; apex with a membranous lining, having a re-entrant angle; scutellum pointed; striations 1 and 2 (counting suture as 1) faint, 3–5 prominent, keel shaped, rest normal, intervals deep, pubescent along the intervals; surface with a black rectangular longitudinal band starting from the sides of scutellum covering the area between 1st and 3rd striations but ending just before the mid region of elytra, two comma shaped black spots near the lateral margin in the anterior half with a narrow projection towards the humerus, a black transverse band just before the apex with its lateral portions large and rounded.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Siwaliks; Delhi; Bengal; Haryana: Kalka; Jharkhand: Medininagar; Maharashtra: Pune, Nagpur; Andhra Pradesh: Cudappah; Karnataka: Belgavi, Bengaluru; Tamil Nadu: Chennai; Kerala: Thrissur, Chinnar. SRI LANKA: Hambantota; PAKISTAN: Lyallpur.</p> <p>Remarks. Unique Indian Brachinus with basic colour of elytra reddish yellow with black spots, whereas all other species have black, bluish black or brownish black elytra. The type, which was in the Hope collection of BMNH, is presumed to be lost or misplaced (Andrewes 1919).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66CFFFAADD3F969E5329C65	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66BFFFAADD3FB2DE50F9F3A.text	6B0687C5A66BFFFAADD3FB2DE50F9F3A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynidius) pokharaensis Kirschenhofer 2012	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynidius) pokharaensis Kirschenhofer, 2012</p> <p>Brachinus pokharaensis Kirschenhofer, 2012: 208; Hrdlička, 2017: 478</p> <p>Type locality. Nepal: Pokhara.</p> <p>Type depository: coll. D. W. Wrase, Berlin.</p> <p>Specimen examined. No specimens seen, description summarized from Kirschenhofer (2012).</p> <p>Description. Length 6.1–6.8 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum and region around scutellum, suture and lateral border of elytra dark reddish yellow; first four segments of antennae, legs and palpi pale reddish yellow; eyes grey; elytra black with yellowish setae.</p> <p>Head smooth, shiny, glabrous (except few setae on the frons); eyes protruding; antennae long, slender, reaching beyond the middle of elytra, with 3rd segment longest, longer than segments 1 and 2 combined; apical segment of palpi pointed.</p> <p>Pronotum as long as broad, smooth, sparsely punctated pubescent; apex sinuate, base straight, apical margin with slight anterior projection on lateral sides; disc laterally with anterior 3/4th moderately convex, posterior 1/4th divergent, hind angles acute; median groove deep in the middle of the disc and shallow towards base and apex.</p> <p>Elytra long, convex, widest after the mid-region; humerus obsolete, rounded; apex straight, truncate without re-entrant angle; striations weak, broad, shallow, intervals rounded; disc densely pubescent.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand (Anichtchenko, 2019). NEPAL (Hrdlicka, 2017).</p> <p>Remarks. Similar to B. stevensi Andrewes, 1924 (Andrews 1924a but) differing in having the base of the pronotum straight without sinuation and dark black colour of elytra.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66BFFFAADD3FB2DE50F9F3A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FC7AE7FC9F35.text	6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FC7AE7FC9F35.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Metabrachinus) sexmaculatus Dejean 1825	<div><p>Brachinus (Metabrachinus) sexmaculatus Dejean, 1825</p> <p>Fig. 1d</p> <p>Brachinus sexmaculatus Dejean, 1825: 312; Chaudoir, 1876: 63; Andrewes, 1930a: 52; Saha et al., 1992: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478</p> <p>Type locality. India: India oriental, coll. Dejean.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimens examined (n=2). Syntype labelled “‘Indes orient’, ‘6-maculatus’, coll. Dejean ”; 1 ex., (1 female), labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Rajapalayam, ‘ Light’, 15.X.2017, coll. &amp; det. S. V. Akhil ”.</p> <p>Description. Length 9.0–11.0 mm. Head, pronotum, antennal segments and scutellum reddish brown; legs and spots on elytra reddish yellow; margin around eyes and elytra black.</p> <p>Head short, punctated, pubescent, neck glabrous; antennae short, stout, not reaching the middle of the elytra; eyes prominent.</p> <p>Pronotum elongated, longer than broad, glabrous, shiny, faint wrinkles in middle of the disc, highly wrinkled in basal and apical portion of disc; lateral sides of disc convex with anterior two-thirds highly convex, posterior third divergent; apical margin convex with lateral portion of apical margin projecting forwards, basal margin sinuous, hind angles acute, pointed; median groove deep, reaching the anterior and posterior margins.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, long, narrow, humerus obliterate, rounded; apex rounded without re-entrant angle; scutellum pointed; striation clear, visible, broad, intervals weak, smooth, shallow; three reddish yellow spots over each elytron, first and third longitudinal, along the corners of base and apex respectively, second rounded, just below the middle of elytra, not reaching either the suture or the lateral margin, a reddish yellow line running from the first spot to the apex forming a apical yellow band; elytral sutures not closed apically.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bengal: Kolkata; Himachal Pradesh; Sikkim; Arunachal Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh; Tamil Nadu: Rajapalayam. SRI LANKA. MYANMAR: Tharrawaddy. BHUTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017). PAKISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FC7AE7FC9F35	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FF33E34B9B29.text	6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FF33E34B9B29.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus reyi Andrewes 1924	<div><p>Brachinus reyi Andrewes, 1924</p> <p>Fig. 2h</p> <p>Brachinus reyi Andrewes, 1924a: 108; 1930a: 51</p> <p>Type locality. India: Odisha: Ganjam, coll. R. P. J. Rey.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled: “‘Madras: Surada’, coll. R. P. J. Rey, ex. coll. Babault, ‘figured specimen’, ‘H. E. Andrewes Coll. B. M. 1945-97 ’, det. H. E. Andrewes.”</p> <p>Description. Length 11.0–13.0 mm. Head, disc of pronotum (mid region) and first three segments of antennae brownish red; three spots on elytra and legs pale reddish yellow; segments 4–11 of antennae dark brown; apical, basal and lateral margins of pronotum black, elytra black.</p> <p>Head convex, shiny, rough, vertex punctated; frontal foveae shallow; eyes protruding; antennae long, reaching the middle of elytra, segment 1 very short.</p> <p>Pronotum longer than wide, surface rough, wrinkled, glabrous; disc laterally with anterior 2/3rd convex, posterior 1/3rd divergent, hind angles slightly protruding laterally, angles acute, pointed; median groove shallow, deepest at the extremities.</p> <p>Elytra convex, humerus squared; striations deep, distinctly punctated, intervals carinate; three spots on each elytron, anterior spot placed towards humerus, broad, rounded, covering intervals 4–8, smaller middle spot covering intervals 2–5, very small posterior spot close to angle outside the truncation.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Odisha: Ganjam, Surada; Maharashtra: Igatpuri, Bandra; Karanataka: Kanara.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A66AFFFBADD3FF33E34B9B29	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A677FFE6ADD3FF33E2459C65.text	6B0687C5A677FFE6ADD3FF33E2459C65.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus sordidus Andrewes 1933	<div><p>Brachinus sordidus Andrewes, 1933</p> <p>Fig. 2i</p> <p>Brachinus sordidus Andrewes, 1933: 7; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Tamil Nadu: Uduparani, coll. N.C. Chatterjee.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled: “Uduparani, North Salem?, coll. N C. Chatterjee, 28.I.1930, ‘ India. Dehra Dun Coll. B. M.1932-26’. det. H. E. Andrewes”.</p> <p>Description. Length: 10.0 mm. Head, pronotum, first four segments of antennae and legs reddish yellow; scutellum dark reddish yellow; eyes and elytra black.</p> <p>Head stout, broad, wider than long, shiny, sparsely punctated, surface slightly rough, frontal foveae moderately deep; eyes protruding; antennae long, reaching middle of elytra, antennal segment 3 shorter than segment 1 and 2 combined.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long, surface rough, densely punctated, pubescent; disc with apical margin inwardly sinuate, lateral portion not projecting forward, basal margin straight; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angles blunt, obtuse, not projecting laterally; median groove shallow, medially brown, not reaching the apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow, dark brown.</p> <p>Elytra convex, densely punctated, pubescent, with short yellow setae; base narrowed, humerus rounded; apex with slight but distinct re-entrant angle, having a membranous border; scutellum small, pointed; striations very weak, broad, rounded, intervals narrow.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Salem, Uduparani?; Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun.</p> <p>Remarks. Andrewes (1933) remarked that both the specimens considered as types have the locality of Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun, and that the Madras province label was a typographical error. Hence, distribution data provided on the labels of the type species are misleading and the locality of the species is Uttarakhand in the foothills of the Himalayas and not the southern Indian locality (Tamil Nadu, Salem, Uduparani).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A677FFE6ADD3FF33E2459C65	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A677FFE7ADD3FB2EE2C19881.text	6B0687C5A677FFE7ADD3FB2EE2C19881.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus stevensi Andrewes 1924	<div><p>Brachinus stevensi Andrewes, 1924</p> <p>Fig. 3a</p> <p>Brachinus stevensi Andrewes, 1924a: 107; 1930a: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478</p> <p>Type locality. India: Gielle Khola, Teesta Valley, coll. H. G. Stevens, 28.xi – 3.xii.1919.</p> <p>Type depository. BMNH.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Holotype labelled “Giellle Khola, Tista Valley, Darjiling. 28.xi-3.xii. 19, 600 ft., coll. H. Stevens, ‘H. E. Andrewes Coll. B.M. 1945-97 ’, det. H. E. Andrewes”.</p> <p>Description. Length 5.0– 6.5 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum, region around scutellum, sutural line and base of elytra dark reddish yellow; first four segments of antennae, lateral margin of elytra and legs reddish yellow; elytra brownish black, eyes pitch black.</p> <p>Head convex, almost smooth, shiny, frontal foveae shallow, vertex smooth, region around the eyes, frons, neck punctated, pubescent; antennae long, reaching the middle of elytra, segment 3 longest, longer than segments 1 and 2 combined.</p> <p>Pronotum narrower than head, longer than broad, disc rough, with wrinkles, sparsely pubescent; apical margin of disc straight, with lateral region of apical margin projecting forward, posterior margin bisinuate; disc laterally with anterior two-thirds convex, posterior third divergent, hind angles pointed, acute, projecting laterally; median groove shallow, not reaching the apical and basal margin.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, punctated, pubescent, with golden brown setae; base narrowed, rounded, humerus obliterate; surface matt; apex straightly truncate without re-entrant angle, having broad membranous border; scutellum small, blunt; striations weak; sutural colour broadest at basal quarter covering the base, narrows down till basal fourth of the elytra, then straight with uniform thickness to the apex; pale yellow lateral margin beginning just below the humerus, widening to apex, forming a pale reddish yellow apical border.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Assam: Kobo, Dihing river; Sikkim: Teesta Valley; Bengal: Kalimpong; Himachal</p> <p>Pradesh: Kangra; Uttarakhand: Garhwal: Dhikala, River Sarda Gorge, Ranikhet, Dehra Dun.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A677FFE7ADD3FB2EE2C19881	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A676FFE7ADD3FE83E5C79CB6.text	6B0687C5A676FFE7ADD3FE83E5C79CB6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 3b</p> <p>Brachinus suturellus Chaudoir, 1876: 69; Bates, 1892: 394; Vuillet, 1912: 17; Andrewes, 1930a: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478.</p> <p>Type locality. India: North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys”.</p> <p>Description. Length 8.5 mm. Head, pronotum, elytral sutural line, scutellum, region around scutellum, femur, first two antennal segments dark reddish yellow; tibia and tarsi pale reddish yellow; antennal segments 3–11 dark reddish brown; eyes grey; elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, vertex smooth, shiny, glabrous; frons, region around eyes and neck punctated, pubescent; eyes protruding; antennae stout, segments wide, short, not reaching the middle of the elytra; segment 2 very short, segment 3 shorter than segment 1.</p> <p>Pronotum shiny, punctated, densely pubescent; disc with apical margin outwardly sinuate, without lateral portion of apical margin projecting forward, basal margin slightly outwardly sinuate; disc laterally with anterior half convex, posterior half slightly divergent, hind angles pointed, at right angles, not projecting laterally; median groove shallow, not reaching the apical and basal margin; anterior transverse foveae moderately deep; lateral bead broad, dark brown.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, shiny, punctated, pubescent, with short golden brown setae; base narrowed, humerus present, rounded; apex without re-entrant angle; scutellum small, wider, blunt; striations weak, keel shaped, intervals broad, carinate; sutural line extending from region around scutellum to apex, gradually narrowing from base to apex, broadest at base; having narrow reddish yellow apical band.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Almora; Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow; Himachal Pradesh: Narpur (Kangra); Bengal: Bowali; Jharkhand: Barway; Madhya Pradesh: Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (Mhow); Karnataka: Belgavi, Bengaluru. MYANMAR: Tharawaddy, Rangoon. VIETNAM: Cochinchina.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A676FFE7ADD3FE83E5C79CB6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A676FFE4ADD3FA98E33D98AD.text	6B0687C5A676FFE4ADD3FA98E33D98AD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Metabrachinus) tetracolon Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus (Metabrachinus) tetracolon Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 1e</p> <p>Brachinus tetracolon Chaudoir, 1876: 61; Bates, 1891: 336; Andrewes, 1930a: 52.</p> <p>Type locality. Bangladesh: Dhaka, coll. M. S. Stevens.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled. “‘Deccan’, coll. M.S. Stevens, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 16.0 mm. Head, pronotum, antennae and scutellum dark reddish brown; palpi and legs light reddish brown; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head stout, as wide as long, smooth, glabrous, a patch of setae around the eyes; eyes prominent, protruding; frontal impression deep, clear; neck smooth; antennae short, stout, not reaching the middle of elytra.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long, smooth, glabrous, wrinkles very fine; disc laterally convex, anterior twothirds rounded, posterior third divergent, hind angle sharp, acute, slightly projecting laterally; apical and basal margin straight, lateral edge of apical margin projecting forward; median groove shallow; anterior transverse furrow clear, deep.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, broad, glabrous; humerus straight, squared, corners rounded; apex rounded, without reentrant angle; scutellum pointed; striations clear, keel shaped, pointed, intervals flat, broad, smooth; three reddish yellow spots on each elytron, first transverse, extending between fourth and eight striations, second rounded, just below the middle portion, third very narrow along the apical region not reaching the suture; a reddish yellow line starting as a very faint line from the humerus running along the lateral edge joining the first and the third spot, apical portion of first and second striae including the interval brownish black.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bengal: Asansol. BANGLADESH: Dhaka. SRI LANKA: Vavuniya, Hambantota.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A676FFE4ADD3FA98E33D98AD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FEE7E7309CCB.text	6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FEE7E7309CCB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Metabrachinus) tetragrammus Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus (Metabrachinus) tetragrammus Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 1f</p> <p>Brachinus tetragrammus Chaudoir, 1876: 54; Andrewes, 1924a: 117; 1930a: 52.</p> <p>Type locality. India: Bengal, coll. Dr. Bacon.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Ind.or.bor.’, coll. Dr. Bacon, det. Chaudoir”.</p> <p>Description. Length 8.5–9.0 mm. Head, pronotum, palpi and first four segments of antennae dark reddish yellow; legs and two spots on each elytron pale reddish yellow; antennal segments 5–11 dark brown; eyes grey; scutellum brownish black; median groove of pronotum dark reddish brown, lateral margin dark brown; elytra black.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, smooth, glabrous, matt; eyes, protruding; apical segment of palpi sub-cylindrical, truncate; antennae, short, stout, not reaching the middle of the elytra, segment 3 longest, equals the combined length of segments 1 and 2.</p> <p>Pronotum narrow, longer than broad, matt, rough, punctated, pubescent; disc with apical margin straight, lateral region of apical margin slightly projecting forward, basal margin sinuate, convex; anterior two-thirds of lateral margin convex, posterior third divergent, hind angles pointed, not projecting laterally; median groove moderately deep; lateral bead narrow.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, flat, matt, punctated, pubescent; humerus rounded; apex with a well-defined re-entrant angle, having a membranous border; scutellum very small, pointed; striations moderately deep, carinate, intervals wide, both striations and intervals covered by setae; two spots on each elytron, first extended oval with transverse elongation, extending between striations 4 and 8, in the middle of elytra, second at the apex, square shaped.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Bengal; Bihar: Pusa; Maharashtra: Nagpur, Bandra; Odisha: Surada; Karnataka: Belgavi; Kerala: Malabar.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FEE7E7309CCB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FB45E2F49FAE.text	6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FB45E2F49FAE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir 1876	<div><p>Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir, 1876</p> <p>Fig. 3c</p> <p>Brachinus vigilans Chaudoir, 1876: 68; Bates, 1891: cccxxxvi; Andrewes, 1930a: 53.</p> <p>Type locality. India: North India, coll. Dr. Bacon.</p> <p>Type depository. MNHN.</p> <p>Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “‘Ind.or.bor’, coll. Dr. Bacon, det. Chaudoir.</p> <p>Description. Length 7.5 mm. Head, pronotum, first two antennal segments, scutellum, region around scutellum and sutural line dark reddish yellow; antennal segments 3–11 dark reddish brown; legs pale reddish yellow; eyes greyish black; lateral margin of pronotum dark brown; elytra brownish black.</p> <p>Head stout, wider than long, rough, punctated, pubescent; eyes moderately protruding; antennae short, segments stout, not reaching the middle of elytra, antennal segment 3 shorter than segment 1.</p> <p>Pronotum broad, wider than long, rough, matt, punctated, pubescent; disc with apical margin outwardly sinuate, lateral region of apical margin projecting slightly forward, basal margin straight; disc laterally with anterior threefourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angle blunt, obtuse, projecting laterally; median groove shallow, not reaching the apical and basal margins; lateral bead broad.</p> <p>Elytra convex, matt, punctated, densely pubescent, with golden brown short setae; base narrowed, humerus rounded; apex without re-entrant angle; scutellum long, pointed; striations moderate, shallow, narrow, intervals broad, both striations and intervals covered by setae; sutural line narrow, widest at base, narrowing suddenly after the tip of scutellum, extending till apex.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Jharkhand: Tetara; Maharashtra: Nagpur; Tamil Nadu: Chennai.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A675FFE4ADD3FB45E2F49FAE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
6B0687C5A674FFE0ADD3FC6FE4099949.text	6B0687C5A674FFE0ADD3FC6FE4099949.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachinus (Brachynolomus) devagiriensis Akhil & Divya & Sabu 2020	<div><p>Brachinus (Brachynolomus) devagiriensis sp. nov.</p> <p>Fig. 4</p> <p>Type material. Holotype (male) labelled: “ Male; India: Kerala: Pattambi (KAU <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=76.190475&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.811917" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 76.190475/lat 10.811917)">Campus</a>, 10°48’42.9”N 76°11’25.7”E), ‘Light’, 14.XI.2016, coll. and det. S. V. Akhil ”, deposited in ZSIC; Paratypes labelled “ Female, India: Kerala: Pattambi (KAU <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=76.190475&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.811917" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 76.190475/lat 10.811917)">Campus</a>, 10°48’42.9”N 76°11’25.7”E), ‘ <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=76.190475&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.811917" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 76.190475/lat 10.811917)">Light’</a>, 14.XI.2016, coll. and det. S. V. Akhil ”, deposited in ZSIC; labelled: “ Male; India: Kerala: <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=75.823586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.607223" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 75.823586/lat 11.607223)">Peruvannamoozhi</a> (IISR station, 11°36’26.0”N 75°49’24.9”E), 02.ii.2017, coll. V. A. Jithmon, det. S. V. Akhil ” deposited in ZSIC.</p> <p>Description: Length (TLA) 5.8–6.1 mm. Head, pronotum, scutellum and region around scutellum dark reddish brown; first two segments of antennae, palpi and legs pale reddish yellow (apical segments of palpi darker); femur, apex of tibiae and tarsi dark brown; antennal segments 3–4 dark reddish yellow, rest of the antennal segments reddish brown; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra black; eyes pitch black; genae, gula and prosternum dark reddish yellow; mesosternum, metasternum and abdominal ventrites brownish yellow.</p> <p>Head broad, wider than long, sparsely pubescent, smooth, with very faint wrinkles; frons with frontal foveae setose, shallow, densely punctated (mid region finely punctated, with short setae), smooth; vertex very faintly wrinkled, glabrous; neck rough, densely punctated, pubescent; labrum rectangular, transverse, anterior margin straight, apical angles almost at right angle, having six setae at anterior margin with two long setae at the corners, four (2 long, 2 intermediate) setae in the middle, rest glabrous. Clypeus sub-rectangular, anterior angles obtuse, with one long setae on each lateral edge, minute setae in the anterior margin; fronto-clypeal suture well impressed, deep, intended. Mentum transverse with two triangular, large lateral lobes which are toothed laterally, a single long seta present at the apex of lateral tooth, rest of the mentum glabrous; lateral lobes pointed apically; mentum without median tooth. Submentum very narrow, glabrous. Antennae long, slender, reaching beyond the middle of elytra; segment 1 longest, segment 2 elongate oval, all the segments densely pubescent with a ring of long setae in the apex of the segments. Palpi with segment 2 longest, wide, rectangular; the entire segment pubescent, penultimate segment long, slender, in the shape of an inverted cone, apical segment conical, tapering towards apex. Mandibles stout, scrobe plurisetose, tip pointed, arcuate, not crossing. Eyes highly protruding, prominent. Genae evidently wrinkled except at the base, a few setae present below eyes, rest of the genae glabrous. Gula large, widening towards pronotum, gular suture divergent, well impressed.</p> <p>Pronotum shiny, as long as wide, disc punctated, sparsely pubescent, smooth without wrinkles; disc apically sinuate without forward projection on lateral region of apical margin, disc straight at base, hind angles rounded, blunt, right angled; disc broad, laterally with anterior two-thirds convex and posterior third narrowed, with parallel sides; surface of disc convex; median groove deep, reaching both apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow, widest near apical region.</p> <p>Elytra subparallel, slightly narrowed towards base, shiny, densely punctated and densely pubescent with short yellow setae; humerus prominent, corners rounded; apex obliquely truncate without any re-entrant angle; scutellum long, narrow, pointed, glabrous; striations well marked, deep, carinate; intervals broad, convex/ carinate; suture not completely closed apically; setae present on striations as well as on intervals.</p> <p>Hind wings well developed.</p> <p>Legs strong, densely pubescent; protibial comb rounded with spur at the basal end of the comb. Two tibial spurs pointing inwards. Tarsi with article 1 longest, article 4 shortest.</p> <p>Ventrally, pronotum smooth, pubescent, punctate. Prosternal process prominent, pubescent, extending beyond procoxae, apex pointing downwards. Ventral region densely punctate, pubescent with golden brown setae; hind coxae contiguous; abdomen rounded till apex, apex pointed; mesepisternum prominent, long and broad.</p> <p>Sexual dimorphism. Symmetrically and diagonally arranged adhesive pads on male pro-tarsomeres 1, 2 and 3.</p> <p>Male genitalia. Median lobe (in lateral view) straight in the basal half, sharply curving downwards towards the apex, with apex blunt, pointing straight rather than downwards.</p> <p>Measurements. Holotype (male), TLA = 6.08 mm, TLB = 5.74 mm, PL = 1.10 mm, PW = 1.16 mm, EL = 3.60 mm, EW = 2.39 mm; Paratype (female), TLA = 5.81 mm, TLB = 5.74 mm, PL = 1.10 mm, PW = 1.18 mm, EL = 3.52 mm, EW = 2.48 mm.</p> <p>Distribution. INDIA: Kerala: Pattambi, Peruvannamoozhi.</p> <p>Collecting circumstances. Light-attracted, collected using low-intensity UV light trap.</p> <p>Etymology. Named after the host institution of the authors.</p> <p>Remarks. This new species is similar to B. dryas but differs in having rounded, obliquely truncate elytral apex without re-entrant angle, deeply impressed elytral striations, hind angle of pronotum right angled, blunt, not projecting laterally and strongly protruding eyes.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6B0687C5A674FFE0ADD3FC6FE4099949	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Akhil, S. V.;Divya, M.;Sabu, K. Thomas	Akhil, S. V., Divya, M., Sabu, K. Thomas (2020): Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India. Zootaxa 4816 (4): 576-600, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7
