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Issue: Vol. 4344 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4344.1.4
Page range: 115–136
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Study of Laemostenus species across Zagros and Central zone of Iran, with the description of seven new cavernicolous species and notes on subgenus Iranosphodrus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini)

Entomology Lab, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Entomology, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
Hroznová 19, SK-902 01 Pezinok, Slovakia.
Entomology Lab, Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Coleoptera Antisphodrus Iranosphodrus Iran Zagros subterranean environment key

Abstract

The species belonging to the Sphodrine genus Laemostenus Bonelli, 1810 from central and southern Zagros Mts. and central zones of Iran were studied. Two new species-groups of the subgenus Antisphodrus Schaufuss, 1865 are proposed, and seven new species belonging to subgenera Antisphodrus Schaufuss, 1865 and Iranosphodrus Lohaj & Casale, 2011 are described. Morphological characters of the habitus and shape of male genitalia were used to delimit the species. New species of subgenus Antisphodrus are: L. (A.) zagrosensis sp. nov. and L. (A.) speleophilus sp. nov. from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, and L. (A.) farsicus sp. nov. from Fars province (zagrosensis species-group); Laemostenus (A) zakariyiensis sp. nov. from Fars province (aequalis species-group), and L. (A.) shirazensis sp. nov. from Fars province (glasunowi species-group).  Based on the newly collected material, the subgenus Iranosphodrus is redefined and two new species from Yazd province are described: L.(I.) yazdensis sp. nov. and L.(I.) troglophilus sp. nov. An identification key for the Laemostenus species of the studied area is provided, and a check list for Iranian representatives of subgenera Antisphodrus and Iranosphodrus are given.

 

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