Quammenis spectabilis Erwin, 2000

(Quammen’s green mountain beetle)

Quammenis spectabilis, dorsal aspect of holotype.
Historia Natural
Hábitat:	Lower montane wet forest. Members of this species likely occur long the margins of mountain torrents among mossy boulders.
Estacionalidad:	April and October
Alimentación:	Likely, these beetles are predaceous on other arthropods.
Datos moleculares:	These beetles have a potent defensive secretion from paired glands in their abdomen.

Demografía y conservación
Distribución
Distribución en Costa Rica:	This species has only been found in Cordillera Volcánica Central.
Distribution map of Quammenis spectabilis in Costa Rica.
Distribución por área de conservación:	Cordillera Volcanica Central
Distribución fuera de Costa Rica:	No records outside Costa Rica.
Información taxonómica
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Orden:	Coleoptera
Familia:	Carabidae
Sub-familia:	Harpalinae
Nombre científico:	Quammenis spectabilis Erwin, 2000
Nombres comunes:	Quammen’s green mountain beetle

Referencia de publicación de la especie:	Erwin, T.L., 2000. A new genus and species of Lachnophorini and two new species of Lebiini from Costa Rica (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 54(3):279-283.
Nombres Anteriores:	Quammenis spectabilis Erwin 2000
Localidad del tipo:	COSTA RICA: Heredia Province, Estacíon Magsasay, Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo, 200m, LN 264600,531100; 10°24'N 84°02'W.
Depositario del tipo:	INBio: CRI 000-647080
Recolector del tipo:	A. Fernández
Datos moleculares:	These beetles have a potent defensive secretion from paired glands in their abdomen.
Descripción diagnóstica:	Unique (see image) among new world Carabidae; with metallic green dorsum and elytra with large purplish ocellate foveae; head and pronotum with fine, closely spaced ridges, longitudinally arranged on head, transversely arranged on pronotum. Head across eyes slightly broader than prothorax; elytral apex deeply arcuate; pronotum without setae. Aedeagus (see figure) without armature on the endophallus; right paramere small, narrow. Size moderately small: 6.44 to 7.32 mm in length, 2.56 to 2.76 in width. This remarkable lachnophorine is hypothetically related to the South American Stenocheila Laporte 1832.
Quammenis spectabilis, left lateral aspect of aedeagus.
Información general
Autor:	Terry Erwin
Colaboradores:	David H. Kavanaugh Wendy Moore
Fecha de publicación:	12/1/2000
Referencias
Dirección de esta página de especie
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Para consultas
Terry Erwin (erwin.terry@nmnh.si.edu)