Catalogue and Bibliography of the Hong Kong Carabidae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Adephaga), with notes on the historic boundaries of Hong Kong as related to zoological collections

Abstract

A complete list of Carabidae species historically collected in Hong Kong combined with more recent records and notes on their biology is given. Notes on the historic boundaries of Hong Kong through the colonial period are given, as this is an important element relating to our understanding of the origins of historic zoological collections made in the region. Likewise a list of collectors in Hong Kong up to the outbreak of hostilities in the Second World War is given. A full bibliography of Hong Kong Carabidae is included.

Revisiting the Oriental genus Syleter Andrewes, 1941 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini)

“…According to label information, specimens were found from sea level up to an altitude of 750 m. Aston (2016) reports a specimen collected in Hong Kong in moss in a shallow stream.…”

The forgotten tigers: the arboreal tiger beetles of Sri Lanka

“…All five genera are also found in India (Saha & Halder, 1986;Saha et al, 1995;Bhargav et al, 2009;Cassola, 2011), while three genera -Collyris, Neocollyris and Tricondyla are found in Thailand (Naviaux, 1991). Species of Collyris and Neocollyris have been recorded from Vietnam (Erwin & House, 1978;Toki et al, 2017), and Neocollyris and Tricondyla from the Philippine Islands (Trautner & Schawaller, 1996;Cassola, 2000b) and Hong Kong (Aston, 2016). Tricondyla are also known from Brunei (Damken et al, 2017).…”

“…Although the habitats have not been recorded for the species of Sri Lanka, according to Horn (1931), they occur on tree trunks up to a height of several feet. In Hong Kong T. pulchripes White has been recorded on tree trunks (Horn, 1931;Aston, 2016) and is known to frequent Lichi trees (Aston, 2016). Tricondyla aptera Olivier have been collected from the leaves and ground cover in jungle forests of Manila, the Philippine Islands (Tanner, 1951).…”

“…Pitfall traps have been mostly used to collect grounddwelling tiger beetles (Brust et al, 2005;Taboada et al, 2012) and is not considered as an efficient method to collect non-terrestrial tiger beetles (Franzen, 2004). However, species of Tricondyla have been collected using pitfall traps in Hong Kong (Aston, 2016), and N. labiomaculata Horn occurring in lowland mixed dipterocarp forests of Brunei have been collected using dung-baited pitfall traps (Damken et al, 2017).…”

“…In the Philippines, several tiger beetle species of Tricondyla and Neocollyris associated with forest ecosystems are considered to have disappeared due to deforestation, illegal logging and mining , while species of the genus Neocollyris inhabiting branches and trunks of shrubs and trees in lowland mixed agricultural ecosystems have become vulnerable to extinction due to various anthropogenic pressures . In Hong Kong increased urbanisation and expansion of villages causing a significant loss of agricultural land, which has almost completely ceased rice cultivation, is known to have caused the demise of tiger beetles associated with this plant (Aston, 2016).…”