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)
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Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences
2016
2016-10-14
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12
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13155283
0068-547X
13155283
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Minutotrechus minutus
(
Uéno, 1997
)
(
Figs. 11
,
46–48
)
Stevensius minutus
Uéno, 1997:182
.
Holotype
, a female, in NMST. Type locality:
China
,
Yunnan
,
Gaoligong
Shan
,
Tengchong County
,
Dabei
,
2430 m
.
Minutotrechus minutus
(Uéno)
NEW
COMBINATION
.
FIGURE
11.
Minutotrechus minutus
(Uéno)
; a. Dorsal habitus (paratype). scale line = 1.0 mm; b. Map of locality records (red circle) for
M. minutus
in the Gaoligong Shan region. Scale lines a = 0.5mm, b = 100 km.
NOTES
ON
TYPE
MATERIAL
.— We have not had an opportunity to study the
holotype
of this species, but we have examined a
paratype
female deposited in IOZ. Features noted below are based on our examination of that
paratype
and Uéno’s orginal description.
DIAGNOSIS
.— Adults of this species (
Fig. 11a
), the only known species in this new genus, can be distinguished from those of all other species in the region by the combination of character states noted in the generic diagnosis.
HABITAT
DISTRIBUTION
.— According to
Uéno (1997)
specimens of the
type
series were collected at an elevation of
2430 m
in a dense
Rhododendron
forest by sifting moist leaf litter accumulations on the ground. He also noted that many specimens of “
Trechus asetosus
Uéno
” (1997) were also collected in the same litter samples.
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION
WITHIN
THE
GAOLIGONG
SHAN
.—
Fig. 11b
.
This
species is known only from the
six female
specimens of the
type
series collected at the
type
locality, in
Tengchong County
, high on the western slope of the southern part of the Gaoligong
Shan
in
Core Area
6
.
OVERALL
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION
.—
This species currently is known only from the
type
locality in the southern part of the
Gaoligong Shan
, in western
Yunnan Province
,
China
.