Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850

2. Tricondyla mellyi Chaudoir, 1850 View in CoL

( Fig. 5 – 8 View Figures 5–8 , 25, 26 View Figures 23–34 )

短胸缺翅虎甲 duǎn xiōng quē chì hǔ jiǎ

Listings. Wiesner 1992: 19, Naviaux 2002: 49, Putchkov and Matalin 2003: 118, Naviaux and Pinratana 2004: 28, Sawada and Wiesner 2004: 272, 2006: 455, Shook and Wiesner 2006: 21, Shook and Wu 2007: 92, Wu and Shook 2007: 39, 2010: 89, Wu 2011: 31, Wiesner and Geiser 2016: 64, Putchkov and Matalin 2017: 249, Wiesner et al. 2017: 8, Wiesner 2020: 38.

Diagnosis. Habitus large, robust; dull black or partially brownish; head broad with the temples rather abruptly shaped; interocular cavity moderately deep but wide with the bottom very convex towards the frons; pronotum rather long, the ratio length to width variable from 1.9 to 2.1, the medial lobe oval-shaped, slightly narrowed in front, strongly inflated from lateral view, striated throughout; elytra regularly widened without obvious lateral constriction, gibbose; sculpture strong, granular and transverse near the base, behind with regularly arranged polygonal pits.

Distribution. China ( Guangxi, Xizang, Yunnan), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar.