Contribution to knowledge of the genus Chydaeus in Xizang Autonomous Region [Tibet] and Yunnan Province, China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) Author Kataev, Boris M. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia Author Liang, Hongbin Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Author Kavanaugh, David H. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118 USA dkavanaugh@calacademy.org text ZooKeys 2012 2012-02-24 171 39 92 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.171.2306 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.171.2306 1313-2970-171-39 1C0AE742AF194DCE8A6E86B6D72ECCB2 F3103053C45BFFED2A35FFF7FFA5FFA6 576907 Chydaeus irvinei (Andrewes, 1930) Fig. 63 Material examined. A total of 5 specimens (3 males and 2 females, all in IOZ) were examined from the following locality: China . Xizang Autonomous Region . Nyalam County : 2 males, 28°10'N , 85°57'E , 3300 m, 17.V.1966, Wang Shuyong leg.; 1 female, same data, but 3570 m, 18.V.1966; 1 female, same data, but 2400-3400 m, 11.V.1966; 1 male, same data, but 3400 m, 6.VIII.1971, Zhang Xuezhong leg. Distribution. This species, a member of the irvinei group, was known previously from two isolated areas in the Central Himalaya: to the north of Sikkim in southern Xizang and in the upper Tama Koshi valley in southern Xizang and Central Nepal ( Kataev and Schmidt 2002 ). The new record reported here ( Fig. 63 ) is in the upper Bhote Koshi valley in southern Xizang, not far to the west from the Tama Koshi valley.