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Issue: Vol. 5428 No. 4: 25 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5428.4.3
Page range: 501-526
Abstract views: 273
PDF downloaded: 6

Uncovering what lies within: The first scientific account of cave-dwelling ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Philippines with the description of a new genus, new subgenus, and four new species from Mindanao

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies; Daugavpils University; Vienibas 13; Daugavpils; LV-5401; Latvia
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences and University Research Complex; Tropical Genomics Laboratory; Davao Oriental State University; City of Mati; 8200 Philippines; National Museum of Natural History Philippines; Ermita; Manila; Philippines
Coleoptera cavernicolous Pterostichinae Abacetini taxonomy

Abstract

For the first time in the Philippines, cave surveys were carried out in search of cave beetles. In this paper we describe a new troglobite genus, Kweba gen. nov., with two new species K. magbabaya sp. nov. and K. diwata sp. nov. We describe a new subgenus: Trogloabacetus subgen. nov. of the genus Metabacetus Bates, 1892, with the addition of two new species, M. (T.) baltazarae sp. nov. and M. (T.) desideratus sp. nov. from various limestone caves of Mindanao Island. Anaulacus (s.str.) fasciatus (Schmidt-Goebel, 1846) is also reported from the cave habitats. A key to the new and related genera, images of habitus and genitalia, and distribution maps are provided.

 

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