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Issue: Vol. 5609 No. 1: 19 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.1.5
Page range: 83-96
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Two new Trechini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Georgian caves, Caucasus

Institute of Biology and Ecology; faculty of Science; P. J. Šafárik University in Košice; Šrobárova 2; 04154 Košice; Slovakia.; Institute of Zoology; Ilia State University; Giorgi Tsereteli 3; 0162; Tbilisi; Republic of Georgia.
Institute of Zoology; Ilia State University; Giorgi Tsereteli 3; 0162; Tbilisi; Republic of Georgia.
Záhradná 61A; SK-90091 Limbach; Slovakia.
Department of Entomology; Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History; Rosenstein 1; 70191 Stuttgart; Germany.
Coleoptera Trechinae ground beetle taxonomy troglobitic cave fauna

Abstract

During investigations of the cave fauna in Georgia, two new taxa of carabid beetles were discovered. Inotrechus usholtaensis sp. nov. from Usholta Cave and Duvalius gregoi sp. nov. from Kvedi II Cave, Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region, Georgia, are described, illustrated, and differentiated from morphologically similar species. Identification keys to the species of the genera Inotrechus and Duvalius from the Caucasus are provided.

 

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