A contribution to the knowledge of cavernicolous ground beetles from Sichuan Province, southwestern China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini, Platynini)

By

Tian, Mingyi
He, Li

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1008

Pages

61--91

Subjects

Carabids , new combination , new genera , new species , subterranean , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.61040

 

Abstract

Two new genera and four new species of cave-adapted ground beetles are described from Sichuan Province, southwestern China.Uenoaphaenopsgen. nov.is established to place the trechine speciesQianotrechus faniUéno, 2003 occurring in the limestone cave Hua’er Dong, southeastern Sichuan (Luzhou: Gulin).Chu pheggomisetoidesgen. nov. & sp. nov., from the limestone cave Hanwang Dong, northeastern Sichuan (Guangyuan: Chaotian), is somewhat like the European cavernicolous trechine genusPheggomisetesKnirsch, 1923, from Bulgaria and Serbia, in particular in the configurations of head and pronotum.Boreaphaenops liyuanisp. nov., also from Hanwang Dong, is the second representative of the genus and the first record in Sichuan.Agonotrechus sinotroglophilusDeuve, 1999, a troglophile, is reported from Sichuan for the first time. The other two new species belong to the platynine genusJujiroaUéno, 1952:J. uenoisp. nov.from the cave Banche Dong on the northern side of the Dadu River (Leshan: Shawan) andJ. wangzhenisp. nov.from the cave Hua’er Dong, which is sympatric withUenoaphaenops fani(Uéno, 2003)comb. nov.A distribution map for the localities of all abovementioned caves and a key toJujiroaspecies known in Sichuan are provided.