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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009" ID-GBIF-Dataset="1429aeaf-8f3b-431a-a919-a2a0b5d201f4" ID-PMC="PMC8433127" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-1059-57" ID-Pensoft-UUID="D48AC91AB29A5AC795A0FA80FFE5C170" ID-PubMed="34584486" ID-ZooBank="D5A7EE0608C14E4B9FC4442CDE55A576" ModsDocID="1313-2970-1059-57" checkinTime="1630733027764" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Tian, Mingyi, Huang, Sunbin, Jia, Xinyang &amp; Zhao, Yi" docDate="2021" docId="74CF9B715E205704A730270742F139CA" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 1059: 57-78" docOrigin="ZooKeys 1059" docPubDate="2021-09-03" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009" docTitle="Qianotrechus congcongae Tian &amp; Zhao 2021, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docUuid="51137F01-C791-4B90-B94F-64822C00FD2C" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" id="D48AC91AB29A5AC795A0FA80FFE5C170" lastPageNumber="57" masterDocId="D48AC91AB29A5AC795A0FA80FFE5C170" masterDocTitle="Two new genera and three new species of cavernicolous trechines from the western Wuling Mountains, China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)" masterLastPageNumber="78" masterPageNumber="57" pageNumber="57" updateTime="1668150898860" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Two new genera and three new species of cavernicolous trechines from the western Wuling Mountains, China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Zhao, Yi</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/51137F01-C791-4B90-B94F-64822C00FD2C" authority="Tian &amp; Zhao" authorityName="Tian &amp; Zhao" authorityYear="2021" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Qianotrechus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Qianotrechus congcongae" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="congcongae" status="sp. nov.">Qianotrechus congcongae Tian &amp; Zhao</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. A distribution map showing the localities of the three surveyed caves (stars) and the known species and subspecies of the genus Qianotrechus Ueno, 2000 (dots) A Shigao Dong B Qiankou Dong C Qianlong Dong." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584810" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figures 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Ventral head (A-C) and elytral chaetotaxy (E, F) of cave beetles A, D Wulongius qilinger gen. nov. and sp. nov. B, E Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov. C, F Qianlongius zhoui gen. nov. and sp. nov.)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584812" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 3B, E</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov., habitus, holotype male." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584815" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 6</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Pronotum and male genitalia of Qianotrechus species. A, C, E Q. congcongae sp. nov. B, D, F Q. laevis Ueno, 2000 A, B pronotum C, E median lobe and parameres, lateral view D, F apical lobe, dorsal view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584816" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 7</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Cave Shigao Dong. A entrance B the huge passage C place where the two beetles were discovered D a frog, Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu &amp; Fei, 1979 E a running individual of Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584817" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">, 8</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Type material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2021-01-01" collectingDateMax="2021-12-31" collectingDateMin="2021-01-01" collectionCode="SCAU" collectorName="Yi Zhao &amp; Xinyang Jia &amp; Mingyi Tian" latitude="28.82" location="cave Shigao Dong" longLatPrecision="738" longitude="107.32" municipality="Hexi" specimenCount="730" specimenCount-male="730" stateProvince="Nanchuan" typeStatus="holotype">
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<specimenCount type="male">male</specimenCount>
,
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,
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,
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,
<collectingRegion>Chongqing</collectingRegion>
,
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,
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,
<specimenCount type="male">729 m</specimenCount>
,
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, leg.
<collectorName>Yi Zhao</collectorName>
,
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and
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, in
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A small, stout cave trechine, semi-aphaenopsian, with a brown body, rather short appendages and broadly tumid prothorax.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Description.</paragraph>
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Length: 5.5-5.8 mm, width: 1.9 mm. Habitus as in Figure
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 6.</emphasis>
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sp. nov., habitus, holotype male.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Body brown, palps, antennae and tarsi yellow. Surface and underside smooth and glabrous. Microsculpture: isodiametric meshes on head, transversal meshes or striate on pronotum and elytra.</paragraph>
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Head (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Ventral head (A-C) and elytral chaetotaxy (E, F) of cave beetles A, D Wulongius qilinger gen. nov. and sp. nov. B, E Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov. C, F Qianlongius zhoui gen. nov. and sp. nov.)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584812" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">3B</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov., habitus, holotype male." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584815" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">6</figureCitation>
) moderately elongate, longer than wide excluding mandibles, HLl/HW = 1.4; genae moderately convex, widest near head mid-length; frons and vertex moderately convex; frontal furrows nearly parallel-sided, but slightly and shortly convergent posteriorly, ending at widest point of head; anterior and posterior supraorbital pores present, located at about middle and basal 1/5 of head excluding mandibles; clypeus 4-setose, labrum transverse, faintly bisinuate at the front margin, 6-setose; right mandibular teeth bidentate; mentum completely fused with submentum, 2-setose, tooth short and pointed at apex, much shorter than the lateral lobes; ligula fused with paraglossae, 8-setose at apex; palps thin and slender, the 2nd labial palpomere about 0.9 times as long as 3rd; 3rd maxillary palpomere as long as 4th; suborbital pores close to neck; antennae thin, filiform, extending to about middle of elytra; 3rd antennomere longest, about twice as long as scape; relative length of each antennomere compared with scape in the holotype as follows: 1st (1.0), 2nd (1.1), 3rd (1.9), 4th (1.7), 5th (1.6), 6th (1.4), 7th (1.2), 8th (1.2), 9th (1.0), 10th (1.0) and 11th (1. 4).
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Prothorax quadrate, as long as wide, widest behind middle; as long as head excluding mandibles, as wide as pronotum (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Pronotum and male genitalia of Qianotrechus species. A, C, E Q. congcongae sp. nov. B, D, F Q. laevis Ueno, 2000 A, B pronotum C, E median lobe and parameres, lateral view D, F apical lobe, dorsal view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584816" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">7A</figureCitation>
). Pronotum slightly wider than head, PnW/HW = 1.2, widest at about apical 1/4, lateral margins finely bordered throughout, suddenly narrowed before hind angles; base and front unbordered, the former narrower than the latter; anterior latero-marginal pores located at apical 1/5 and the posterior pores in front of hind angles. Scutellum small.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 7.</emphasis>
Pronotum and male genitalia of
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species.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A, C, E</emphasis>
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. congcongae" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="congcongae">
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sp. nov.
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<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2000
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">A, B</emphasis>
pronotum
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">C, E</emphasis>
median lobe and parameres, lateral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">D, F</emphasis>
apical lobe, dorsal view.
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Elytra (Fig.
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Ventral head (A-C) and elytral chaetotaxy (E, F) of cave beetles A, D Wulongius qilinger gen. nov. and sp. nov. B, E Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov. C, F Qianlongius zhoui gen. nov. and sp. nov.)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584812" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">3E</figureCitation>
) stout, longer than wide, EL/EW = 1.6, wider than pronotum, EW/PW = 2.1, and much longer than fore body including mandibles; lateral margins ciliate throughout; disc strongly convex, striae shallow, easily traceable though more or less reduced, intervals flat; anterior and posterior dorsal pores of the 3rd striae at about basal 1/6 and middle of elytra, respectively, preapical pore at about apical 1/7 of elytra, much closer to elytral suture than to apical margin; only an apical pore present, the anguloapical pore absent.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Legs moderately long and densely pubescent; fore and middle tibiae longitudinally grooved externally, whereas simple in hind tibiae; the 1st and 2nd protarsomeres dilated and spurred inwards at apex in male.</paragraph>
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Ventrites IV-VI, each with a pair of paramedial setae, ventrite VII bisetose in male. Male genitalia (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Pronotum and male genitalia of Qianotrechus species. A, C, E Q. congcongae sp. nov. B, D, F Q. laevis Ueno, 2000 A, B pronotum C, E median lobe and parameres, lateral view D, F apical lobe, dorsal view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure7" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584816" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">7C, D</figureCitation>
): median lobe of aedeagus well-sclerotised, long, and elongate, slightly arcuate at median portion, gradually narrowed toward apex which is bluntly obtuse; basal opening large, with a large sagittal aileron; inner sac provided with a thick and long copulatory piece which is about 2/9 as long as aedeagus; in dorsal view, apical lobe longer than wide, gradually narrowed toward apex which is broadly rounded; parameres well developed, shorter than median lobe, each armed with 4 and 5 long setae at apex.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Female.</emphasis>
unknown.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">
The genus
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Qianotrechus</emphasis>
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, 2000 is comprised of three semi-aphaenosian trechine species and one subspecies (Fig.
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):
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. magnicollis</emphasis>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2000,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. tenuicollis tenuicollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2000, and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. tenuicollis cheni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2003 from Suiyang County and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2000 from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Zhengan">Zheng'an</normalizedToken>
County, Zunyi Shi, Guizhou Province (
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
2000
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,
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). Another species,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. fani</emphasis>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Uéno">Ueno</normalizedToken>
, 2003, has been reported from Gulin County, Luzhou Shi, Sichuan Province, but it is not a
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Qianotrechus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and so has been transferred into the genus
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Tian &amp; He, 2020 (
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).
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sp. nov. is closely similar to
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from
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County of northeastern Guizhou Province (
<bibRefCitation author="Ueno, SI" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the Speleological Society of Japan" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" pagination="1 - 38" refId="B5" refString="Ueno, SI, 2000. New cave trechines (Coleoptera, Trechinae) from northeastern Guizhou, South China. Journal of the Speleological Society of Japan 25: 1 - 38" title="New cave trechines (Coleoptera, Trechinae) from northeastern Guizhou, South China." volume="25" year="2000">
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2000
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). The locality of the latter species (Mawan Dong) is about 30 km in a straight line from Shigao Dong in Nanchuan, Chongqing. However,
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. congcongae" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="congcongae">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. congcongae</emphasis>
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is different from
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
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in having a stouter body (more elongated in
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), a broader prothorax with propleura widely visible from above (narrowly visible in
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (Fig.
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), and the pronotum evidently narrowed near the base, which is distinctly sinuate before posterior latero-marginal setae (only slightly sinuate in
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
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). In addition, the median lobe of the aedeagus is straight and widened at apex (slightly sinuate and narrowed in
<taxonomicName lsidName="Q. laevis" pageId="0" pageNumber="57" rank="species" species="laevis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Q. laevis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) (Fig.
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).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">The name of this beautiful species is in honour of &quot;Xiao Cong&quot;, a nickname of Ms Jia Liu, an outstanding and leading caver in the Chongqing Cave Exploration Team, Chongqing, for her kind assistance in our collecting trips in Chongqing.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Distribution.</paragraph>
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China (Chongqing). Known only from the limestone cave in Shigao Dong, Nanchuan (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. A distribution map showing the localities of the three surveyed caves (stars) and the known species and subspecies of the genus Qianotrechus Ueno, 2000 (dots) A Shigao Dong B Qiankou Dong C Qianlong Dong." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584810" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">1</figureCitation>
). Shigao Dong is located about 0.5 km from Hexi Zhen (Nanchuan) in a straight line to the south. The cave, which is near a small road and just behind a farm house, has a large entrance (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Cave Shigao Dong. A entrance B the huge passage C place where the two beetles were discovered D a frog, Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu &amp; Fei, 1979 E a running individual of Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584817" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">8A</figureCitation>
). There is an underground river inside the cave. The main passage is about 100 m from the entrance. At first, we reached as far as 300 m along the right passage of the case, which is huge, several dozen metres high and wide (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Cave Shigao Dong. A entrance B the huge passage C place where the two beetles were discovered D a frog, Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu &amp; Fei, 1979 E a running individual of Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584817" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">8B</figureCitation>
), but without any finding specimens. Later, we came back to the cave and went explored the left passage, where we observed two beetles running on the wet ground near a small pool, about 160 m from the
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entrance (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 8" captionStartId="F8" captionText="Figure 8. Cave Shigao Dong. A entrance B the huge passage C place where the two beetles were discovered D a frog, Oreolalax rhodostigmatus Hu &amp; Fei, 1979 E a running individual of Qianotrechus congcongae sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1059.70009.figure8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/584817" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">8C, E</figureCitation>
). Apart from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Qianotrechus congcongae</emphasis>
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sp. nov., three species of millipedes, a dipluran, and a troglophilic frog (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Oreolalax rhodostigmatus</emphasis>
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Hu &amp; Fei, 1979) were also observed in this cave (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="57">Figure 8.</emphasis>
Cave Shigao Dong.
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entrance
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the huge passage
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place where the two beetles were discovered
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a frog,
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Hu &amp; Fei, 1979
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a running individual of
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sp. nov.
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