Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir 1876

Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir, 1876 Fig. 3b Brachinus suturellus Chaudoir, 1876: 69; Bates, 1892: 394; Vuillet, 1912: 17; Andrewes, 1930a: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478. Type locality. India: North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys. Type depository. MNHN. Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys”. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/395468