Sunday, November 29, 2020

[Entomology • 2020] New Species and New Record of Cavernicolous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini and Platynini) from Sichuan Province, China


 Jujiroa deliciola Uéno & Kishimoto, 2001

in Tian & He, 2020.


Abstract
Two new species of cave-adapted ground beetles are described and illustrated from Sichuan Province, southwestern China: Jujiroa zhouchaoi sp. nov. from the calcareous conglomerate cave Shenxian Dong in Mt. Zhaogong (Dujiangyan, Chengdu) and Pterostichus (Huaius) hanwang sp. nov. from the limestone cave Hanwang Dong (Chaotian, Guangyuan). A new locality for Jujiroa deliciola Uéno and Kishimoto, 2001 is given. Keys to species of the genus Jujiroa Uéno, 1952 and the subgenus Huaius Tian and Huang, 2019 (in Tian et al. 2019) are also provided.

Keywords: new species, carabids, subterranean, Coleoptera


 Jujiroa deliciola Uéno and Kishimoto, 2001


  Mingyi Tian and Li He. 2020. New Species and New Record of Cavernicolous Ground Beetles from Sichuan Province, China (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini and Platynini). Zootaxa.  4881(3); 545–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.7