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Issue: Vol. 2566 No. 1: 13 Aug. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-08-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2566.1.5
Page range: 49-56
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of blind Trechinae from the Pyrenees of Huesca, and its position within Aphaenops (sensu stricto) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, C.P.50, UMR 7205 du CNRS / USM 601 "Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité", Département Systématique et Evolution, Bât. Entomologie, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Javier Fresneda, Ca de Massa, 25526 Llesp - El Pont de Suert, Lleida, Spain Museu de Ciències Naturals (Zoologia), Passeig Picasso s/n, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
Coleoptera Carabidae Trechini Aphaenops parvulus sp. n. subterranean environment Pyrenees Spain molecular phylogeny

Abstract

A new trechine species Aphaenops parvulus sp. n. (Carabidae, Trechini) is described from Esjamundo cave in the Pyrenees of Huesca, Spain. The new species belongs to the subgenus Aphaenops (sensu stricto), but differs from its closest congeners by the small size—it is the smallest species of the group—and characters of the aedeagus. Molecular data based on fragments of a mitochondrial (COI) and a nuclear (LSU) genes recognised Aphaenops parvulus sp. n. as a sister taxon to A. eskualduna Coiffait. Aphaenops eskualduna is reported from Spain with precision for the first time.

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