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Taxon classification Animalia
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<taxonomicName id="89FAD616DE635435EACE293B0B20B8AB" ID-CoL="4Q3HN" LSID="Chinese common name: 盘胸通缘步甲 (Pán Xīong Tōng Yuán Bù Jiă)" authority="Csiki, 1930" authorityName="Csiki" authorityYear="1930" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus (Circinatus) liciniformis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liciniformis" subGenus="Circinatus">Pterostichus (Circinatus) liciniformis Csiki, 1930</taxonomicName>
Figures 16, 42, 52, 64, 80, 102, 122
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(Circinatus) liciniformis
<bibRefCitation id="B171DEEB42F8130C58C2DCB5DE125808" author="Csiki, E" editor="Junk, W" journalOrPublisher="W. Junk, Berlin" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="529 - 737" title="Coleopterorum catalogus. Volumen II. Carabidae II" year="1930">Csiki 1930</bibRefCitation>
: 669
</taxonomicName>
, replacement name for
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;
<bibRefCitation id="1C7F22856480CD5D5502B1551F5ECD2B" author="Jedlicka, A" journalOrPublisher="Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem Staatlichen Museum fuer Tierkunde in Dresden" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="177 - 346" title="Monographie des Tribus Pterostichini aus Ostasien (Pterostichi, Trigonotomi, Myadi) (Coleoptera-Carabidae)." volume="26" year="1962">
<normalizedToken id="084131260B1EB0C5335E9DDECC597D14" originalValue="Jedlička">Jedlicka</normalizedToken>
1962
</bibRefCitation>
: 298 (
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(incertae sedis));
<bibRefCitation id="C488563A84DE659A958AB664453761FE" author="Sciaky, R" journalOrPublisher="Annuario del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Brescia" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" pagination="217 - 231" title="Circinatus new subgenus and three new species of Pterostichus from China (ColeopteraCarabidae). Natura Bresciana." volume="30" year="1996">Sciaky 1996</bibRefCitation>
: 224;
<bibRefCitation id="83D5DA131FFCC5AC4FDF5917FD3BBEBF" author="Bousquet, Y" editor="Loebl, I" journalOrPublisher="Apollo Books, Denmark" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="469 - 521" title="Carabidae: tribe Pterostichini Bonelli, 1810." volumeTitle="Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1, Archostemata- Myxophaga- Adephaga" year="2003">Bousquet 2003</bibRefCitation>
: 488;
<bibRefCitation id="BC8A2B44AF5FE2F30739F3AFDD0431CD" author="Lorenz, W" journalOrPublisher="Wolfgang Lorenz, Tutzing, Germany" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" title="Systematic list of extant ground beetles of the world (InsectaColeopteraGeadephaga: Trachypachidae and Carabidae incl. Paussinae, Cicindelinae, Rhysodinae)" year="2005">Lorenz 2005</bibRefCitation>
: 280;
<bibRefCitation id="7883311B85DA63249D43316BA4FF239B" author="Allegro, G" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (Botanica Zoologia)" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="3 - 18" title="Review of the Chinese subgenus Circinatus of Pterostichus, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae)." volume="34" year="2010">Allegro and Sciaky 2010</bibRefCitation>
: 7.
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="50FA431AEF554F03B1837E8972400ABA" authority="Synonym" authorityName="Synonym" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus (Circinatus) liciniformis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liciniformis" subGenus="Circinatus">Pterostichus (Circinatus) liciniformis Synonym</taxonomicName>
:
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licinoides
<bibRefCitation id="41FC433EE6A8E4F61DE323402BBA590B" author="Fairmaire, L" journalOrPublisher="Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="7 - 46" title="Coleopteres de l'interieur de la Chine (suite)." volume="32" year="1888">Fairmaire 1888</bibRefCitation>
: 10
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, (Original:
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; syntype deposited in MNHN?). Junior homonym of
<taxonomicName id="0D59EE243A57067AE882C545E9949280" authority="Motschulsky, 1866: 261" authorityName="Motschulsky" authorityPageNumber="261" authorityYear="1866" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Steropus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Steropus licinoides" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="licinoides">Steropus licinoides Motschulsky, 1866: 261</taxonomicName>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5415C05A6516481A7DFD82530C8BA0EA" author="Tschitscherine, T" journalOrPublisher="Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" pagination="260 - 351" title="Materiaux pour servir a l'etude des feroniens. III." volume="30" year="1897">
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1897
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: 294 (
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(
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)).
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<paragraph id="49A496C2CF632352D7DEDDA29D9F88C7" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6D05F64E97AF78587A0406EC68AF9063" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
In the original literature there was no detailed locality indicated, but only
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was mentioned. According to our knowledge of the type material of the other
<taxonomicName id="5211719CDF6C9A2B52344489D6F39704" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="tribe" tribe="Pterostichini">Pterostichini</taxonomicName>
species described in the same paper (see
<bibRefCitation id="FA0A1085F373033F920F7931C5E703D4" author="Shi, HL" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="60" pageNumber="61" pagination="101 - 135" title="A new subgenus Wraseiellus of the genus Pterostichus Bonelli (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pterostichini) and new species descriptions." url="10.11646/zootaxa.3664.2.1" volume="3664" year="2013">Shi et al., 2013</bibRefCitation>
: 118 for a detailed discussion) and of the further specimens of
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collected in recent years, we infer that the type locality of this species could be in northeast Dali in Yunnan Province.
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<paragraph id="0FAC63727ACD89D93890613EA756124F" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Notes on types.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B3215353FA4A8A095896492EF2B0B373" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
The syntype was in
<normalizedToken id="EA1745C8110B0B64F9DEEBC0D7E3B114" originalValue="Fairmaires">Fairmaire's</normalizedToken>
collection, and then should have been transferred to the collection of MNHN. But despite a careful examination of the
<taxonomicName id="D6F2EBCFC9FDA0DC15151815951862EE" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Carabidae</taxonomicName>
collection in MNHN, we failed to find the type.
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<paragraph id="B0E524DAF8C018CFD822CDADF7BDEC17" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Non-type material examined</paragraph>
<paragraph id="30F4E4CBBF8622A0D3CC795E5F9D78FE" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
(total 22 specimens). 1 male (CCCC), &quot;China, Lijiang, Laojunshan, 3500 m, 2009.VI.12, ZHU Xiaoyu lgt.&quot;; 3 males, 1 female (IZAS), &quot;China, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan, Yunshanping, in dead log, 2006.11.15, 3200 m, LIU Biao&quot;; 2 males, &quot;China, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan, Yunshanping, in dead log, 2006.11.15, 3200 m, ZHAO Yongshuang&quot;; 2 males (IZAS), &quot;China, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan, Yunshanping, in dead log, 2006.11.15, 3200 m, CHEN Jie&quot;; 2 males (IZAS), &quot;China, Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan, Yunshanping, in dead log, 2007.03.14, 3205 m, LIU Biao&quot;; 1 female (IZAS), &quot;Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongshan, 1979.VIII.10, LIU Guoqing, 2700-3300 m&quot;; 1 male (IZAS), &quot;China, Yunnan Prov., Lijiang county, Laojunshan, grassland,
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, 3510 m, 2007.8.19 day, Liang H.B. collector&quot;; 2 males (IZAS), &quot;Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan Mt., Maoniuping, 3271 m, 2012.VI.2, pit fall trap, LIU Ye, SHI Hongliang lgt.&quot;; 1 male (IZAS), &quot;Yunnan, Lijiang, Yulongxueshan Mt., Maoniuping, 3226, 2012.VI.1, LIU Ye, SHI Hongliang lgt.&quot;; 2 males, 1 female (IZAS), &quot;China, Yunnan, Deqen Pref., Zhongdian County, Luoji, pass S. of Jiulong village, 3594 m,
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,
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, 2013.VIII.22, under dead log, SHI Hongliang, LIU Ye &amp; LIU Yizhou lgt.&quot;; 1 female (IZAS), &quot;Yunnan, N. of Zhongdian, 3446 m, 2000.VII.23-30, YU Xiaodong lgt.&quot;; 1 female (IZAS), &quot;Yunnan, Deqin county, E. slope of Baimaxueshan, 3700 m, 1981.VIII.26, LIAO Subai lgt.&quot;; 1 male (NMPC), &quot;China: Yunnan prov., 1.3-2.0, km S of Haba, 17.-20.VI.2007, Haba Xueshan Mts., 2830-, 3000 m, 27°22.1'
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E, J.Hajek &amp; J.Ruzicka leg&quot;; &quot;individually collected on soil surface and on plants and shrubs, sparse mixed forest (with dominant pinus); in/ near the brook&quot;.
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<paragraph id="2F80490372B12691355B352A3D8CC247" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3CD5A42402AFA69E96C76B68F7AF36AB" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Pronotum with single mid-lateral seta; posterior seta distant from hind angle, hind angle completely rounded; elytral shoulder angle completely rounded, without humeral tooth; male and female with similar faint linear elytral microsculpture; fifth tarsomeres glabrous beneath; males with terminal sternum depressed in middle.</paragraph>
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This species differs from all other
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species by: body form relatively wide; elytral humeral angle completely rounded; elytral lateral expansion wide and reflexed.
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<paragraph id="E8B764C3A3DBA1CE43C1A456BBE55638" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Supplemental description.</paragraph>
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Male sternum. Penultimate sternum without special structures; terminal sternum depressed in middle, depression occupying apical half of sternum, finely rugose inside depression, a faint vertical ridge present in middle of depression, frontal- lateral corners of depression forming two indistinct tubercles (Fig. 122). Endophallus (Fig. 42D, E, F) bent to ventral side across left side of aedeagus, major parts of endophallus located on ventral side of aedeagus (in lateral view); gonopore (gp) located at level near aedeagal base, pointing to ventral face, gonopore lobe (gpl) bent in apical direction. Five distinct lobes recognized: basal lobe (bl) close to base of apical lamella, small and rounded; ventral lobe (vl) with a long and strongly chitinized piece, rounded membranous lobe borne on ventral-apical part of chitinized piece; right lobe (rl) rounded and large, shallowly constricted in middle, decorated
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fine scales; left lobe I (lf-I) close to base of vl, apex enlarged; left lobe II (lf-II) narrower than lf-I, pointing to left side of aedeagus. Female genitalia. Spermatheca with seminal canal approx 3.5 times as long as receptaculum; receptaculum clavate (Fig. 64), gradually expanded to apex; seminal canal inserted at base of common oviduct, base of seminal canal sclerotized. Stylomere II with two ensiform setae at basal half of outer margin, and one near middle of inner margin; two short nematiform setae located in a furrow near apex. Female sternum VIII (Fig. 80B) with fine setae on posterior margin; posterior margin almost straight, slightly notched in middle; anterior region more weakly chitinized than posterior region, without denser pigmentation, deeply notched in middle; middle transparent region diamond-shaped, with two very narrow oblique extensions adjacent to anterior and posterior notches in middle. Female tergum VIII (Fig. 80A) very short, mainly semi-chitinized with sparse and irregular spots; lateral-anterior region with two chitinized patches; anterior margin not notched in middle, posterior margin evenly arcuate.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="9364596870458E996E910BE13B7B1D3F" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="822C38E4CD049993439F6FDABF41D622" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8075B20D4C85B790572941AEC7DA6600" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">This species is relatively widely distributed in northwest Yunnan. So far it has been recorded from several localities in Lijiang, Shangri-La (=Zhongdian), and Deqin (Map 1).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="018FDD94EAE53B7C12B1A984AD5F92D4" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" type="affinities">
<paragraph id="79276439BDB8CFAEEE2AD55F3DE595C9" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Affinities.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="78FB8F3D1A6F2A9A556038D72D3C69D5" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
As indicated by
<bibRefCitation id="DB3C96A160B28A8DFC99712A33232FE1" author="Allegro, G" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (Botanica Zoologia)" pageId="59" pageNumber="60" pagination="3 - 18" title="Review of the Chinese subgenus Circinatus of Pterostichus, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae)." volume="34" year="2010">Allegro and Sciaky (2010</bibRefCitation>
: 7),
<taxonomicName id="8EA44A464DACE587D9668AA15CEE358A" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus liciniformis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liciniformis">Pterostichus liciniformis</taxonomicName>
appears to be isolated in the species group. This species could be close to the other two species from north Yunnan,
<taxonomicName id="B8FA958D1F556AC12F4144638225D4D1" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus wangjiani" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wangjiani" status="sp. nov.">Pterostichus wangjiani</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="D0ED0655BB12B65DCBFBA0F782E9A3A7" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
<taxonomicName id="33D3AFB0514BE2FB42D55BBDC7A68E55" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus dimorphus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dimorphus" status="sp. nov.">Pterostichus dimorphus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="0CF59353E2A42758C97BCB99322EDD20" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Despite differences in the pronotal hind angle, elytral shoulder angle and microsculpture, these species are very similar in the depressed male terminal sternum and aedeagus. Nevertheless,
<taxonomicName id="81A887E9CE1BC0AB64727CDAF926E11F" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus liciniformis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liciniformis">Pterostichus liciniformis</taxonomicName>
could represent an early branch in the
<taxonomicName id="74E03D4008EA4AFA9BC97BE2447FEEFC" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pterostichus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pterostichus baenningeri" order="Coleoptera" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="baenningeri">baenningeri</taxonomicName>
-group. A detailed discussion is provided below.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="41BE33EE4F2440F65F6EF8BAD616B02E" pageId="37" pageNumber="38" type="geographical variation">
<paragraph id="27786B6C7DF91D940F22EF22D4A21F6B" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Geographical variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DAFB7B1BB8ED33FA0F0F9E4E6190C403" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
We studied males from two localities, Lijiang (Yulongxueshan Mt.;
<geoCoordinate id="5BAD06270CF0D5181ED9D55D9DA33F51" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="27.2">N27.20°</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate id="DC03504740EF9F7DBC6EB4CAB4268C4C" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="100.27">E100.27°</geoCoordinate>
) and Shangri-La (= Zhongdian; pass S. of Jiulong village;
<geoCoordinate id="E6CDEFDAB2B58C960EA11138486C6EA7" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="555" value="27.67">N27.67°</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate id="A19018BE3A3146586E73270513959F6D" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="555" value="100.03">E100.03°</geoCoordinate>
). The specimens from these two localities have no differences in the external or aedeagal (endophallus excluded) characters. However, for the endophallus, we found one difference: in a specimen from Lijiang, the apex of lf-II is distinctly enlarged in dorsal view; in the specimen from Shangri-La, lf-II is smaller than that from Lijiang, and the apex less enlarged in ventral view. (Figs 42, 52)
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