Inventory of the Carabid Beetle Fauna of the Gaoligong Mountains, Western Yunnan Province, China: Species of the Tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae).
Author
Kavanaugh, David H.
Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, U. S. A.
Author
Liang, Hongbin
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2021
2021-09-30
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Genus
Eobroscus
Kryzhanovskij, 1951
Eobroscus
Kryzhanovskij, 1951:538
.
Type
species:
Eobroscus richteri
Kryzhanovskij, 1951:538
(=
Broscus
lutshniki
Roubal, 1928:90
).
Tosawabroscus
Uéno, 1953:49
.
Type
species:
Tosawabroscus amabilis
Uéno, 1953:49
.
Orobroscus
Morita. 1990:159
.
Type
species:
Eobroscus masumotoi
Morita, 1990:160
(synonymized by
Schmidt et al. 2013:15).
Diagnosis.
Members of this genus can be distinguished from those of other broscine genera in the region by the following combination of character states: body size large, BL> 15.0 mm; head with one pair of supraorbital setae; vertex with very deep, sharply defined and impunctate cleft between tempora; gula with two deep transverse grooves on each side; maxillae with two setae on eustipes; mentum with one pair of setae; submentum with three pairs of setae; antennomere 3 with apical whorl of fixed setae only, antennomere 4 with pubescence on apical one-third; pronotum with basolateral setae present; elytra with parascutellar setae present; male pro- and mesotarsi with ventral pads of adhesive setae on tarsomeres 1 and 2.
Diversity and geographical distribution.
This genus is represented by only three species (Schmidt et al. 2013):
Eobroscus lutshniki
(Roubal)
, restricted to the northeastern
China
, the Russian Far East, and
Japan
;
Eobroscus masumotoi
Morita, 1990
, restricted to
Taiwan
; and
Eobroscus bhutanensis
, treated below.