W. Hunting, M.-M. Yang. 2019. A taxonomic review of the pericaline ground-beetles in Taiwan, with...
Wesley Hunting, Man-Miao Yang. 2019.
A taxonomic review of the pericaline ground-beetles in Taiwan, with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini).
ZooKeys, 2019, 816: 1-164.
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.816.29738
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Abstract
A taxonomic review of the known Taiwanese taxa of the pericaline Lebiini, this paper includes a key to
the genera, keys to species, descriptions, and redescriptions of all species, illustrations, geographic range
maps, re-rankings, and new synonymies. In total 34 species are treated, nine of which are described as
new. A new genus and new species are as follows: Bellavalentis gen. n., (type species Dolichoctis kuzugamii
Shibata, 1967); Amphimenes absensacidus sp. n.; Amphimenes beichatiensis sp. n.; Amphimenes carinacaulis
sp.àn.; Catascopus (s. str.) asaharti sp. n.; Catascopus (s. str.) viridiorchis sp. n.; Coptodera (Coptoderina)
occulta sp. n.; Dolichoctis badiadorsis sp. n.; Dolichoctis dilatata sp. n.; Moctherus obscurabasis sp. n. After
close examination of the type material of several species, we were able to determine that Coptoderina
chaudoiri anguilipennis (Nakane and Okhura) is a junior synonym of Coptodera (Coptoderina) chaudoiri
Andrewes, syn. n. and Coptodera nobilis Jedlicka is also a junior synonym of C. chaudoiri, syn. n. Dolichoctis
striatus formosanus Habu is a junior synonym of Dolichoctis rotundata (Schmidt-Goebel), syn. n.
Dolichoctis (Mochtherus) uenoi Habu is a junior synonym of Mochtherus luctuosus Putzeys, syn. n. Pericalus
formosanus Dupuis was recently ranked as a subspecies of Pericalus ornatus formosanus Dupuis. After consideration
of the several consistent taxonomic characteristics and also considering its allopatric distribution
with all other species of Pericalus, we believe Pericalus formosanus Dupuis to be a valid species, stat.
resurr. The monobasic genus Pseudomenarus (type species Pseudomenarus flavomaculatus Shibata, 1964) is
established as conspecific with members of the genus Formosiella Jedlicka, 1951, comb. n.
Species previously recorded from Taiwan that are not present here include: Amphimenes piceolus
Bates; Catascopus aequatus Dejean; Catascopus facialis (Wiedemann) Coptodera interrupta Schmidt-Goebel.
