Studies on Adriaphaenops Noesske with the description of five new species from the Dinarides (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)
Author
Lohaj, Roman
Author
Lakota, Ján
Author
Quéinnec, Eric
Author
Pavićević, Dragan
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Čeplík, Dávid
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.200269
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1175-5326
200269
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2.
Adriaphaenops pretneri
Scheibel, 1935
(
Figs. 1
,
13
)
Scheibel, 1935
:35 (
Adriaphaenops
),
Type
locality:
Windhöhle
bei
Zavala
,
Herzegowina
[=Popovo polje, Ravno, Zavala, Vjetrenica pećina].
Material examined.
Two females: Holotype female labelled: “Zavala
VIII 1929
” (white label, hw)/“
Pretneri
Typ! Scheibel” (white label, hw)/“Type” (red label, handwritten) (NMB), one female labelled: “Žira jama Turkovići” (white label, hw)/”Popovo polje
15.VII.1970
” (white label, hw)/“leg. Bole Hercegov” (white label, hw,p)/ “Laboulbeniales n. 1096 Walter Rossi” (green label, hw,p)/“
pretneri
det. Pretner 1970” (NMP).
Diagnosis.
L:
4.65–5 mm
, TL:
4.3–4.55 mm
. Head large, rounded (index HL/HW 1.25), frontal furrows moderately impressed, reaching the first third of head length, with two pairs of long supraorbital setae; neck constriction distinct; genae evidently curved. Clypeus with four pairs of setae, labrum with three pairs of setae, outer pairs longer. Antennae long (AL
3.28 mm
). Pronotum elongate (index PL/PW 1.25), slightly narrower than head, with maximum width before the anterior quarter, basal part as wide as anterior, anterior and posterior angles small and acute. Elytra elongate oval, broader, distinctly longer than wide (index EL/EW 1.74), with maximum width at middle; elytral surface covered with sparse, short and erected pubescence; striae absent. Site of stria 3 with three (two discal and one preapical) setae.
Male unknown.
Female genitalia: examination not possible, in both female specimens available to the authors, missed or damaged.
Distribution.
Bosnia
& Hercegovina, Popovo polje, Vjetrenica and Žira caves. Vjetrenica cave is one of the best explored caves in the Balkan Peninsula and it is the
type
locality also for other subterranean
Coleoptera
, namely
Hadesia vasiceki
Müller, 1911
,
Anthroherpon apfelbecki apfelbecki
(Müller, 1911)
and
Nauticiella stygivaga
Moravec & Mlejnek, 2002
(
Cholevidae, Leptodirini
) as well as
Scotoplanetes arenstorffianus
Absolon, 1913
(
Carabidae
,
Trechini
).
Troglamaurops ganglbaueri
(Winkler, 1925)
(
Staphylinidae
,
Pselaphinae
),
Speonesiotes (Speonesiotes) naretinus latitarsis
(Apfelbeck, 1919)
(
Leiodidae, Leptodirini
),
Neotrechus suturalis otiosus
Obenberger, 1917
and
Neotrechus dalmatinus
(Miller, 1861)
(
Carabidae
,
Trechini
) were also reported from this cave.