Mecodema haakuturi

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.

Mecodema haakuturi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Genus:	Mecodema
Species:	M. haakuturi
Binomial name
Mecodema haakuturi Seldon & Pou, 2024

Diagnosis.

Habitus drawing, dorsal view, with male aedeagus structures: RL = right paramere, LP = left paramere and AL = adeagal lobe.

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 ⅘ of the ventral edge (Fig. 2, LP, AL, Seldon & Pou 2024).