Tuesday, October 27, 2020

[Entomology • 2020] Two New Species of Cavernicolous Trechines (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae) from central Guizhou and northwestern Guangxi, China


Sinaphaenops (Sinaphaenopschengguangyuani  
Ma, Huang & Tian, 2020.


Abstract
Two highly modified new species of cave-adapted trechine beetles are described from Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Sinaphaenops (Sinaphaenopschengguangyuani n. sp. (Guizhou: Longli: cave Shuijing Dong), belonging to the banshanicus species group of the genus Sinaphaenops Uéno & Wang, 1991; Giraffaphaenops brevicephalus n. sp. (Guangxi: Leye: cave Dalongguan Dong), being the third species of the genus Giraffaphaenops Deuve, 2002, with a shorter but broader head than its congeners. Keys to identify the species of the banshanicus species group and the genus Giraffaphaenops are provided respectively.

Keywords: Coleoptera, troglobitic, ground beetle, China




Zijun Ma, Sunbin Huang and Mingyi Tian. 2020. Two New Species of Cavernicolous Trechines from central Guizhou and northwestern Guangxi, China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Zootaxa. 4861(4); 581–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.4.6