New cavernicolous ground beetles from Anhui Province, China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini, Platynini)

By

Fang, Jie
Li, Wenbo
Wang, Xinhui
Tian, Mingyi

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

923

Pages

33--50

Subjects

Carabids , hypogean , new genus , new species , subterranean

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.923.47322

 

Abstract

A new genus and three new species of cave-adapted ground beetles are reported from the limestone cave Shenxian Dong in Huangshan Shi, southeastern Anhui Province, China.Shenoblemusgen. nov.is proposed to place the anophthalmic trechine speciesS. minusculussp. nov. This genus is characterized by the tiny but stout body, sub-moniliform antennae, serrated elytral margins near the base, and a wide distance between the fifth and sixth pores of the marginal umbilicate series on the elytra. In addition, two new species,Wanoblemus huangshanicussp. nov. (an anophthalmic trechine) andJujiroa inexpectatasp. nov. (a microphthalmic platynine), are also described and illustrated from the same cave.