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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Distribution of morphometric characters in males of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus and Carabus (Archiplectes) satyrus subspecies constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">Figs 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Distribution of morphometric characters in females of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus and Carabus (Archiplectes) satyrus subspecies constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 2</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Distribution of morphometric characters in males of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus subspecies constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Distribution of morphometric characters in females of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus subspecies constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Distribution of morphometric characters in males of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus resheviensis (River Reshevie), Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis (River Reshevie), and Carabus (Archiplectes) juenthneri juenthneri (Village Pskhu env.) constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 5</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Distribution of morphometric characters in females of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus resheviensis (River Reshevie), Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis (River Reshevie), and Carabus (Archiplectes) juenthneri juenthneri (Village Pskhu env.) constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 6</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Distribution map of Carabus (Archiplectes) satyrus, Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus, and Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis in Abkhazia." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 7</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2833" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figures 28 - 33. Fully inflated endophallus preparation and apical lamella of aedeagus of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus dsychvensis and Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus resheviensis 28 - 30 Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus dsychvensis 31 - 33 Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus resheviensis." pageId="12" pageNumber="33">, 31-33</figureCitation>
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material.
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Holotype, a male: Abkhazia, N Slopes of Bzybian Mt. Range, right bank of River Reshevie (= Reshava) (left tributary of River Bzyb), 700-1000 m, 13.V-02.VII.2010, leg. D. Fominykh, I. Solodovnikov (ZISP). 577 paratypes: 34 males, 48 females, Abkhazia, N Slopes of Bzybian Mt. Range, right bank of River Reshevie (left tributary of River Bzyb), 700-1000 m, 13.V-02.VII.2010, leg. D. Fominykh, I. Solodovnikov (cZAM, cFDD, cSIA); 234 males, 261 females, same locality, 04.V-20.VII.2012, leg D.
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, A. Safronov (cZAM, cFDD, cSIA, cSAA, cBAS, cTAYu); 3 females, Abkhazia, Bzybian Mt. Range, right bank of River Reshevie (left tributary of River Bzyb), 670-720 m, 13-14.V.2010, leg. D. Fominykh, I. Solodovnikov (cPRYu); 5 males, 3 fe
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, Abkhazia, Sukhum Distr., left bank of River Bzyb, right bank of River Reshevie, beech, maple, fern forest site, 670-720 m, 13-14.V.2010, leg. I. Solodovnikov (cSIA); 5 males, 10 females, same locality, 13.V-02.VII.2010 leg. I. Solodovnikov, D. Fominykh (cSIA, cPIG, cKVM); 1 male, labeled &quot;Cauc. occ. Abchasia Pskhu 1910,
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Schaum&quot; (ZISP); 1 female, labeled &quot;West Caucasus, Pskhu, VII.1913, Satunin&quot; (ZISP). Holotype and 57 paratype specimens measured, 30 male genitalia preparations studied.
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="36">Description.</paragraph>
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Large form, body size 34.5-43.0 mm, males 34.5-39.0 (37.6) mm, females 37.2-43.0 (40.6) mm long. Underside black, dorsum bright bronze, red-gold, green, violet, dark blue, black, with metallic lustre in males and matte in females. Appendages black, rarely the femora are red and basal antennomeres reddish-brown (approx. 5 % of individuals). Body usually monochromatic dorsally, less frequently bicolored (head and pronotum being usually greenish, the elytra bronze or reddish-bronze). Body massive and rather high (Figs
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).
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Head huge, somewhat inflated. Pronotum transverse to subquadrate, hind angles protruding backwards and in some individuals sidewards. PW/PL = 1,18-1,55 (1,37) in males and 1,29-1,67 (1,45) in females. Elytra faintly elongate, ovate; more elongate, sometimes with depression in the middle in females, EL/EW = 1,52-1,92 (1,72); generally more ovate, convex, and smoothed in males, EL/EW = 1,42-1,78 (1,59). Elytral sculpture precise to homodynamous and confused, with hardly any distinguishable primary interspaces in males. The main morphometric measurements are presented in Table
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. Male genitalia practically identical to other taxa of
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="36">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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resembles habitually a population of
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, inhabiting valley of River Basla (city of Sukhum vicinities), but differs in the following characters. Pronotum with a rather shallow median depression, being only poorly marked in males; disk impressed; hind angles huge, appreciably larger, lateral sides of pronotum strongly sinuated before hind angles; elytra broader in males, EL/EW = 1.59, while 1.75 in
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and 1.61-1.75 in
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. The new subspecies is the closest geographically to
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, populating southern slopes of Bzybian Mt. Range, but differs in having a larger body size, more ovate elytra, smooth elytral sculpture, more transverse pronotum with weaker protruding hind angles, and general dorsal coloration (PW/PL = 1.14-1.48 (1.35) in males and 1.26-1.56 (1.41) in females of
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); furthermore, the disk of the pronotum is more convex than in the new subspecies. The new subspecies differs from the recently described
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first of all in having a larger body size, more transverse and faintly cordate pronotum with more narrow base;
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possesses subquadrate pronotum with stronger protruding sidewards hind angles, PW/PL = 1.14-1.42 (1.25), PW/PB = 1.00-1.26 (1.14); elytra of
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are more ovate and shorter both in males and females.
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The bulk of studied individuals of
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(males) differ from the other subspecies, namely
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,
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,
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, and
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in their elytral sculpture: tertiary interspaces are elevated almost as secondary ones, forming a smooth sculpture, primary interspaces interrupted more frequently. In the other subspecies tertiary interspaces are normally hardly raised. Morphometric characters are illustrated in Figures
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Distribution of morphometric characters in females of Carabus (Archiplectes) besleticus resheviensis (River Reshevie), Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis (River Reshevie), and Carabus (Archiplectes) juenthneri juenthneri (Village Pskhu env.) constructed using discriminant analysis based on 8 parameters." pageId="16" pageNumber="37">6</figureCitation>
.
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="37">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Populates boreal slopes of Bzybian Mt. Range on the right bank of River Reshevie (=Reshava) at 700-1000 m. Occurs sympatrically with
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, the population density of the latter being somewhat higher. Occurrence of this subspecies at the left bank of River Reshevie and downstream River Bzyb seems also possible, but collected material does not confirm this possibility at present.
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.
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Prefers slightly sloping beech and fir-beech forest sites rich in ground litter on karstic landforms. Activity of imago proceeds from April to July.
<taxonomicName authorityName="Zamotajlov" authorityYear="1991" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pseudopshuensis" subGenus="Archiplectes">Carabus (Archiplectes) pseudopshuensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="apschuanus" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Tribax) apschuanus subsp. apschuanus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="apschuanus" subGenus="Tribax" subSpecies="apschuanus">Carabus (Tribax) apschuanus apschuanus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Tribax) constantinovi subsp. otcharensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="constantinovi" subGenus="Tribax" subSpecies="otcharensis">Carabus (Tribax) constantinovi otcharensis</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="circassicus" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Tribax) circassicus subsp. circassicus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="circassicus" subGenus="Tribax" subSpecies="circassicus">Carabus (Tribax) circassicus circassicus</taxonomicName>
(natio
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" form="abasinus" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="form">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">abasinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName authorityName="Mandl" authorityYear="1955" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Microplectes) argonautarum subsp. reischitzi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="argonautarum" subGenus="Microplectes" subSpecies="reischitzi">Carabus (Microplectes) argonautarum reischitzi</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Motschulsky" authorityYear="1840" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Megodontus) septemcarinatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="septemcarinatus" subGenus="Megodontus">Carabus (Megodontus) septemcarinatus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Sphodristocarabus) armeniacus subsp. dvorschaki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="armeniacus" subGenus="Sphodristocarabus" subSpecies="dvorschaki">Carabus (Sphodristocarabus) armeniacus dvorschaki</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Carabus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Carabus (Procerus) caucasicus subsp. colchicus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="caucasicus" subGenus="Procerus" subSpecies="colchicus">Carabus (Procerus) caucasicus colchicus</taxonomicName>
occur together with this subspecies.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="38" type="subspecific epithet">
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="38">Subspecific epithet.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="38">The subspecific epithet refers to the name of the River Reshevie, the type locality of subspecies.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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