Inventory of the Carabid Beetle Fauna of the Gaoligong Mountains, Western Yunnan Province, China: Species of the Tribe Trechini (Coleoptera: Caraboidea), with Descriptions of Four New Genera, One New Subgenus and 19 New Species.
Author
Deuve, Thierry
Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne-Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.
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.
dkavanaugh@calacademy.org
Author
Liang, Hongbin
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China * Corresponding author: David H. Kavanaugh (dkavanaugh @ calacademy. org)
text
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2016
2016-10-14
63
12
341
455
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13155283
0068-547X
13155283
4C790FE0-B735-4592-8827-EEF83C663CB1
Trechus
(
Trechus
)
mingguangensis
Deuve and Liang
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 19
,
41b
,
46–48
)
TYPE
MATERIAL
.—
Holotype
, a male, in IOZ, labeled: “CASENT 1038692”/ “
CHINA
,
Yunnan
,
Tengchong County
,
Mingguang Township
,
Eighth Boundary Post Pass
,
N25.80984°
/
E98.62084°
,
2287 m
,
23 May 2006
,”/ “Stop # DHK-2006-037A, D.H.
Kavanaugh
,
R.L. Brett
,
X.P. Wang
&
D.Z.Dong
collectors”/ “
HOLOTYPE
Trechus mingguangensis
Deuve & Liang
,
sp. nov.
designated 2016” [red label]
.
Paratypes
(only 1): a female (in
CAS
) labeled: “CASENT 1038840”/ “
CHINA
,
Yunnan
,
Tengchong County
,
Mingguang Township
, small stream on SW-facing slope below 7.9 airkm
N of Zizhi village
,
2200 m
,”/ “
N25.80314°
/
E98.62117°
,
2200 m
,
23 May 2006
,”/ “Stop # DHK-2006-038A, D.H.
Kavanaugh
&
D.Z. Dong
collectors”/ “
PARATYPE
Trechus mingguangensis
Deuve & Liang
,
sp. nov.
designated 2016” [yellow label]
.
TYPE
LOCALITY
.—
China
,
Yunnan
,
Tengchong County
,
Mingguang Township
,
Eighth Boundary Post Pass
,
N25.80314°
/
E98.62117°
,
2287 m
.
DERIVATION
OF
SPECIES
NAME
.— The species epithet,
mingguangensis
, is derived from the name of the township in which the
type
locality is located, Mingguang, and the Latin suffix,
-ensis
, denoting place.
DIAGNOSIS
.— Adults of this species (
Fig. 19a
) can be distinguished from those of all other species in the region by the following combination of character states: size large (BL =
4.5 to 4.8 mm
), apterous; body color reddish-brown; tempora glabrous, short and convex; pronotum transverse (ratio PW/PL = 1.40), basal angles acute and sharp; elytra very slightly elongate, striae finely punctate, striae 1 to 4 deeply impressed, stria 5 more faintly impressed, striae 6 to 8 effaced or nearly so, recurrent stria terminated anteriorly at a slight convexity in line with the presumed location of stria 7 apically; two normal discal setae present, inserted next to stria 3, preapical seta present, inserted in a discal position next to stria 3 at apical one-fourth of elytra; median lobe of male aedeagus with a large sagittal aileron, apical lamella long and rectilinear, nearly straight, apex thin, endophallus with copulatory piece poorly defined (
Fig. 19b
).
DESCRIPTION
.— Size large, BL =
4.5 to 4.8 mm
. Body color dark reddish-brown, shiny, appendages paler, yellowish- or reddish-tan, palpi pale yellow. Body surface smooth, only head capsule faintly alutaceous.
Head. Moderate in size; eyes slightly reduced, moderately convex, but their diameter less than twice as long as tempora, the latter short, moderately convex and glabrous. Frons moderately flattened; frontal furrows deep, curved, prolonged and not attenuated posterior to the eyes. Two pairs of supraorbital setae present, the anterior pair inserted in foveae. Clypeus with four setae. Labrum with six setae, anterior margin distinctly concave.
Mentum
and submentum not fused but suture between them only faintly impressed.
Mentum
with medial tooth broad and apically truncate, about one-half the length of the lateral lobes. Submentum with six setae anteriorly. Gula wide. Genae with a single seta ventrally on each side. Antennae short, not quite extended to the basal one-fourth of elytra, male with about 2.5 to 3 antennomeres extended posteriorly beyond basal pronotal margin; antennomeres 2 and 3 about equal in length, antennomere 4 slightly shorter.
FIGURE
19.
Trechus mingguangensis
sp. nov.
; a. Dorsal habitus (CASENT1038692). b. Median lobe of aedeagus of male (CASENT1038692), left lateral aspect. c. Map of locality records (red circles) for
T. mingguangensis
in the Gaoligong Shan region. Scale lines a, b = 0.5 mm, c = 100 km.
Pronotum. Moderately transverse (ratio PW/PL = 1.40), narrowed posteriorly, greatest width anterior to middle; lateral margins widely rounded, straightened only just anterior to basal angles, the latter small, but projected, acute and sharp. Disc convex, smooth and glabrous, median longitudinal impression sharply impressed, not quite extended to anterior margin; basal foveae distinct, subcircular; median basal area with several faint, longitudinal rugulae, delimited laterally by oblique furrows. Basal margin slightly bisinuate, slightly reflexed and oblique laterally, slightly projected medially. Lateral borders of pronotum moderately slender, regular, slightly reflexed, lateral grooves deeply impressed. Single midlateral setae on each side inserted slightly anterior to middle; single basolateral seta on each side, inserted at basal angle.
Elytra. Ovoid, only very slightly elongate, more narrowed basally than apically, humeri distinct but rounded. Disc convex and smooth. Striae very finely punctate, striae 1 to 4 deeply impressed, stria 5 more faintly impressed, striae 6 to 8 effaced or nearly so. Parascutellar striole present. Recurrent stria terminated anteriorly by a slight convexity at the presumed location of stria 7 apically. Basal setiferous pore present at common origin of striae 1 and 2. Two discal setae present and inserted next to stria 3, one at anterior one-fourth and one near middle of elytra. Preapical seta present and inserted in a discal position on interval 3, next to stria
3 in
forward position at apical one-fourth of elytra. Umbilicate setal series with setae of humeral group equidistance from each other and setae of median group inserted slightly posterior to middle.
Legs. Relatively short, protibiae with longitudinal furrow. Male protarsomeres 1 and 2 dilated and apicomedially toothed.
Abdomen. Abdominal ventrites glabrous, except for a single paramedial seta on each side, and ventrite VII of males apically with one pair of paramedial setae, of females with four pairs.
Male aedeagus. Median lobe (
Fig. 19b
) only slightly enlarged basally but with a large sagittal aileron present; shaft markedly narrowed at middle and broader subapically; apical lamella long, rectilinear, extremely thin in lateral view; endophallus voluminous but without well-defined sclerites.
HABITAT
DISTRIBUTION
.—
One specimen
of this species was found under stones and debris along a roadcut (
Fig. 41b
) through slightly disturbed primary forest of
Tsuga
, with small, scattered small bamboo thickets; and the other specimen was found under stones along a small stream crossing the road in the same general area. No other trechines were collected in either of these sites, which range in elevation from
2200 to 2287 m
.
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION
WITHIN
THE
GAOLIGONG
SHAN
.—
Fig. 19c
.
We
examined a total of
2 specimens
, both from
Mingguang Township in Tengchong County
on the western slope of the southern part of the Gaoligong
Shan
(see
Type
material above for exact collection data). Both of these localities are in
Core Area
6
.
OVERALL
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION
.— This species currently is known only from the western slope of the southern part of the Gaoligong Shan, in western
Yunnan Province
,
China
.