Mecodema haakuturi
| Mecodema haakuturi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Mecodema |
| Species: | M. haakuturi
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| Binomial name | |
| Mecodema haakuturi Seldon & Pou, 2024
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Mecodema haakuturi is a species of ground beetle, restricted to the escarpment of the northeastern arm of the Parataiko Range, western Northland Region, New Zealand. This species is within the curvidens species group,[1] which includes these other species: M. kokoromatua, M. manaia, M. parataiko, M. tenaki, etc.
Diagnosis.
Distinguishable from other North Island Mecodema species by having: (1) the vertexal groove absent, except a few wrinkles sparsely distributed laterally; (2) asetose punctures of elytral striae stellate (star-shaped) in the apical third (Fig. 3, Seldon & Pou 2024); and (3) regarding the apical shape of the aedeagal lobe, the form of the left paramere is distinctive with long setae extending along 4⁄5 of the ventral edge (Fig. 2, LP, AL, Seldon & Pou 2024).
References
- ^ Seldon, David S.; Pou, Dion (October 2, 2025). "A new species of Mecodema Blanchard, 1853 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Nothobroscina) restricted to the north-eastern arm of the Parataiko Range, Northland, Aotearoa – New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 52 (4): 367–378. doi:10.1080/03014223.2024.2334022. hdl:2292/68375 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.