A review of the aphaenopsian ground beetle genus Uenotrechus Deuve et Tian, 1999 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)
Author
Wei, Guofu
Author
Chen, Jujian
Author
Tian, Mingyi
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Uenotrechus liboensis
Deuve et Tian, 1999
(
Figures 2
,
3
, 5a–d)
Deuve
et al.
, 1999
: 133 (
Type
locality: Cave Jinshi Dong, erroneously written as “Shuijiang Dong” in the original description)
Material
examined.
1 male
(
SCAU
), the
holotype
, labeled “
Jinshi Dong
,
15 m
below the entrance,
Sanchahe
,
Libo
,
Guizhou
,
108°4'10" E
/
25°17'47" N
,
580 m
,
IX-1997
,
Jingcheng Ran
leg.”
;
1 males
and
1 female
(
SCAU
),
1 male
(
MNHN
), labeled “
Chang Dong
,
Baidan
,
Mulun National Nature Reserve
(also the
Huanjiang World Natural Heritage Site
of Southern
China
Karsts),
Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County
,
Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region,
107°58’47.20″ E
/
25°09’15.60″ N
,
VIII-26-2011
,
Youbang Li
leg., CHIgx11-LYB14”
;
1 male
(
SCAU
), labeled “
Cave Gui Dong II
,
Mulun National Nature Reserve
,
Huanjiang County
,
Guangxi
, 107°98’27.33″ E / 25°14’65.89″ N,
V-18-2007
,
Franck Brehier
leg.”.
Diagnosis.
Large and eyeless trechine beetles, dark to yellowish brown, fore body darker; antennae and legs long; head expanded laterally, mentum 4-setose, mentum tooth bifid at tip; lateral margins of pronotum not sinuate before hind angles which are bluntly rectangular, base evidently arcuate forwardly; median lobe of aedeagus thin and slender, with a apical notch which is faintly reflexed (
Figs. 6
a–d). Habitus as in
Fig. 3
.
Variability.
Individuals from Cave Chang Dong are darker, slenderer and having longer antennae than those from caves Jinshi Dong and Gui Dong II. Considering the similarity of male genitalia (Figs. 5a–d), we presume that they are identical.
Notes on the
type
locality.
When
Uéno & Ran (2001)
re-described
U. liboensis
Deuve et Tian, 1999
, they pointed out that the
type
locality of this interesting species is probably Cave Bimang Dong instead of Cave Shuijiang Dong cited in the original description (
Deuve
et al.
1999
). According to collecting label, the
type
locality of
U. liboensis
is actually Cave Jinshi Dong in the eastern part of Maolan nature reserve, other than either Bimang Dong in the western part, or Shuijiang Dong in the north. However, Uéno & Ran’s species is probably another species, according to their illustration (
Uéno & Ran 2001, p. 14,
Figs. 2–3
), other than
U. liboensis
because the male genital characters of the individuals collected from caves Pusa Dong (and Dazhu Dong) are so different from those of the
holotype
specimen. To confirm this it is necessary to visit and collect more material in both above caves which are in central part of Maolan nature reserve and inaccessible.
Distribution.
China
(
Guizhou
and
Guangxi
) (
Fig. 2
). Known so far from the bordering karstic areas of Maolan (Libo County) and Mulun (Huanjiang County), both are the World Natural Heritage Sites of Southern
China
Karsts.