Taxonomic revision of the African and Southwest Asian species of Platyderus Stephens, subg. Eremoderus Jeanne (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphodrini)
Author
Gueorguiev, Borislav
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-0657
National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Blvd. Tsar Osvoboditel, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
gueorguiev@nmnhs.com
Author
Wrase, David W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1779-2684
Oderstr. 2, 15306, Gusow-Platkow, Germany
Author
Assmann, Thorsten
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9203-769X
Leuphana University Lueneburg, Institute of Ecology, Universitaetsallee 1, 21335 Lueneburg, Germany
Author
Muilwijk, Jan
Department of Entomology, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands
Author
Machard, Patrice
29 Chemin de Champigny, Molineuf, F- 41190 Valencisse, France
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
2022
2022-06-13
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.69.83840
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/dez.69.83840
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16.2.
Platyderus (Eremoderus) insignitus presaharensis Lagar
Mascaro
, 1978
Fig. 18
Platyderus insignitus presaharensis
Lagar
Mascaro
, 1978: 31 (type locality: "cueva [cave] Kef Aziza, Tazzouguert", Morocco).
References.
Platyderus insignitus presahariensis
[sic]:
Hovorka 2017
: 756.
Type material.
Holotype probably in Museu de
Ciencies
Naturals de Barcelona. Not examined.
Other material examined.
None.
Diagnosis.
Differs from nominotypical subspecies by pronotum sides more parallel to pronotum base and not sinuate before posterior angles, which are right and rounded, somewhat longer antennae, with antennomeres 9-11 exceeding pronotum base, and elytral striae well-impressed (
Lagar
Mascaro
1978
: 31).
Habitat.
The holotype was collected in the cave Kef Aziza, a 4.5 km long cave near river Oued Guir and village of Ksar Tazougart, one of the longest caves in Morocco. It seems to be a trogloxene or subtroglophile that tends to temporarily inhabit subterranean habitats, but also strongly associated with aboveground habitats.
Distribution.
Errachidia Province,
Draa-Tafilalet
Region, Eastern-Central Morocco (Fig.
18
).