Records of Four Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Southwest Hubei and Northwest Hunan, China

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by  Imura, Y

El、t,-a、Tok、,o,28(2):217-221,November15,2000
RecordsofFourCarabidBeetles(Coleoptera,Carabidae) from
SouthwestHubeiandNorthwestHunan,China
Yuki IMURA
DepartmentofGynecology,TokytlGeneralHospital,Kita-senzoku,
I-45-6,0ta-ku,Tokyo,145-0062Japan
Abstract FourspeciesofthegenusCarabus(s.lat)arerecordedfromsouthwest-
ernHubeiandnorthwesternHunano「South-CentralChina.0neofthemisdescribedasC
(/por0l110pfe'1'1s)lilt'7川0''、/'Is1/加10101SubSp nov.
Earlyinthesummerof2000,ImadeaninvestigativetriptosouthwesternHubei
andnorthwesternHunanofSouth-CentralChina,withaview to clarify thecarabid
faunaoftheseareas,whichhasbeenpoorlyknownasyet.Unfortunately,almostallthe
forestshavebeenextensivelycutdownandmostpartsoftheoriginalve9etationhave
alreadydisappearedeveninandaroundsuchnaturereservesasXin9douShanand
Badagongshan.Aftermakingeveryeffortbysettingnearly2,000trapsatninediffer-
entsites, IwasabletocollectonlyfourspeciesofthemembersofthegenusCal'abus
(s lat).Allthesearealreadyknownandratherwidelydistributedspecies,butareStill
worthintroducingintoscience frommorphologicalandzoogeographical viewpoints.
OneofthemisconsideredtobeanewraceofC.(Apotomopterus)tnfirmior. Inthisa「一
tjcle,IamgojngtorecordallthefourtaxawithnecessarydescriptionsandexactCol-
lectingdata.
Before gojng further, I wish to express my sincere thanks to Mr. FANTin9
(chengduInternatjona1AcademicExchangeCentreoftheChineseAcademyofSci-
ence)andDr.ToshioK1sHIMoTo(TokyoUniversityofAgriculture) fortheirkindCo1-
laboratjonthroughoutmyfieldworks.AlsoIacknowledgeMr.KiyoyukiMIZuSAWAfo「
hjssupportinvariousways.Special thanksareduetoDr.Shun-lobiUENooftheNa-
tjona1scienceMuseum,Tokyo, forrevisingthemanuscriptofthispaper.
1. Calabus(Apoto,tlopterus)pietc1'esprote1'esBATES,1889
(Fig.1)
ca1-abtls(Apotolnopte1-llslp1・etc,1es:IMuRA,2000,Gekkan-Mushi,Tokyo,(356),p it,figS.1-2・
Length:26.7-33.5mm(includingmandibles).
Male genjtalia. AsshowninFig.1,basicstructureofthemalegenitalor9an
ofthjsspeciesisalmostidenticalwiththatofC(・4.)sautel1' (cf.IMURA,1994;IMURA
218 YukiIMURA
Fig 1. Male 9enita1organofCala'bus(Apoto'nopte,・11s)p,・otenesp1・otenes. fromnear Dahong_cun jn
Da'anXian9ofLon9shanXain,NW.Hunan. - a,Aedcaguswithfullyoverfedendopha11usjnlefl
late「alview;b,dittoinrightlateralview;c,apicalpartofacdeagusindorsalview;d,spjnulajndorsal
view;e,dittoinbasallateralview. Scale:2mmfora&b;1mmfore_e
etal.,1998), thoughtheformer ispeculiarinbearingtwoirregularlyshapedsmall
memb「aneOusprojectionsonthedorsalwalloftheendopha11usattheplacefortheme_
dian1obe.
Specimensex:an11ned. [SW.Hubei]:6 ,22 ,Hongchun[工椿] (1,350m),jn
anbao-qu[元堡区]ofLichuanXian利[ 川iL],14-VI-2000;9
27 Bajjao_cun
nf [巴蕉村] (730-800m), inMaoba-qu[毛i 区｢ ]o Lichua Xian, ,14_v,I_2000;Ie
n , GaOdOn9zi [高洞子](700m)atDashaba-cun[大沙i 村｢ ] i HuangJindong_qu黄[金洞
区]ofXianfengXian[咸一一l ﾃ] ,14-VI-2000;2 ,54 ,Baiyan[白岩] (900m), In
XianfengXian,14-VI-2000;6 19 ,easternsideofPassFenshuiling [分水出令]
,
(1,320m),at Taiping-qu [太平区] ofHefengXian [鶴峰」jL:], 12_vl_2000 [Nw
1;nan]: 3 , 6 .nearDahong-cun[大1 - (1,020-1,080m), inDa'anxjang[大
女 ]ofLOngShanXian[J-t山 ],13-VI-2000;4 17 Liangshuifng_cun[涼水
井村](780-800m),inDa'anXiangofLongshanXian,,13-VI-,2000,allcollectedbyY.
IMURA& T. KISHIMOT0.
Notes. Calabuspr1otenes was describedbyBATESover ahundredyearsago
baseduponthematerialsbroughtbyPRATT,andisoneofthewell_knownApotomo_
PterusinChina.Nevertheless,ourknowledgeisstillverypooron itsdistrjbutjon,
Va「iatOinandevenonthedetailedmorphology.Infact,themalegenitalorganofthjs
SpeciesiSillustratedandpreciselydescribedforthefirsttimeinthispaper.Thejdentj_
FourCarabidBeetlesfromHubciandHunan 219
ficationoftheabovespecimenswasmadebaseduponacomparisonwiththelectotype
ofCprotenesnowpreservedintheNationalMuseumoftheNaturalHistoryinParis,
but theassignedtaxonomicpositionisstill tentative,since thelectotypeofBATES'
speciesisafemale.AsshowninFig.1,themalegenitaliaofthistaxonandthoseofC
sauteriarecloselysimilartoeachother,anditmaybeappropriatetounifythesetwo
taxaintoasinglecategoryataspecieslevel,atleast fromthemorphologicalview.
2. Cara加s(4pofo,,lopterus)inf'r,m'or fs/1加toto''IMURA,subsp nov.
(Fig2)
Cal・abus(Apoto,nopte,-us)1,fit-niterssp:lMuRA,2000,Gekkan-Mushi,Tokyo,(356),p it,figs3-4.
Length:28.7-32.5mm(includingmandibles).
Blackwith faintbrownishtinge. 0neof thelargestsubspeciesofalltheknown
racesofirfirmior,withrobustbodyandhomodynameeIytra1sculpture.Malegenitalia
as shown jnFig 2,with theapical lobeofaedeagusmoderatelyelongate for the
specjes,gentlycurvedventradinlateralview,andnotremarkablyprotrudedleft lat-
eradjndorsalview.Endopha11usshortandgraduallynarrowedtowardsgonopore,with
apairofwell_developedbasal lateral lobes;medianlobeabsent,prepraeputia11obes
weaklyrecognizableonbothsides,apical lobesratherremarkablyprotrudedthough
small, and podian1obes inconspicuous.Spinula short and small, arrowhead-
very
shapedjndorsalview,withthedorsalmargingentlyarcuateinlateralview.
b
a
一
Fig 2 Malegcnjta1organofcal・a加s( oro111opfe1・11s)1,lf1・,11101・/,,ls1/1nlofolsubSPnov., f「omLian9Shui-
ling_cunInDa'anxjangofLongshanXian,NW.Hunan. - a,Acdcaguswithfullyeve「teden-
dopha1lusjnleftlatcralview;b,dittoinrightlateralview;c,apicalpartofaedCa9uSindo「SalView;d,
spjnulajndorsalview;c,dittoinbasallateralview. Scale:2mmfo「a&b;1mmfo「C-e・
220 Yuki IMURA
Typeseries: Holotype: , Liangshuijing-cun [涼水井村] (780-800m) inDa'an
Xiang [大安 ] of Longshan Xian [-It山 ], NW. Hunan, China, 13-VI-2000, Y.
IMURA&T.KIsHIMoToleg.,incoll.DepartmentofZoology,NationalScienceMuseum
(Nat.Hist),Tokyo.Paratypes(includingallotype):17 40 ,samedataas for the
,
0 ,t holotype;1 3 ,easternsideofPassFenshuiIing[分水山Ⅹ (1,32 m) a Taiping-q
,
[太平区] ofHefengXian [鶴峰 ],SW.Hubei,China,12-VI-2000;3 , near Xue-
1aozhai [雪落寨](l,250-1,300m),inShaping-qu [沙坪区] ofXuan'enXian [宣恩
],
SW.Hubei,China,12-VI-2000;19,nearDahong-cun [大11村] (1,020-1,080m), in
Da'anXiang[大安 ] ofLongshanXian [尤山 ],NW. Hunan, China, 13-VI-2000,
allcollectedbyY.IMURA&T.KlsHIMoToandpreservedincoils.Y. IMURA&K.MlzU-
SAWA.
Notes. Theelytra1sculptureofthepresentnewsubspeciesishomodyname,and
distinguished at a glance fromsuch formswithheterodynameelytra1sculptureas
nominotypica1infirmior,1occa1andlisanlingae.Fromsubspp homodvnamus,normo_
dyna'nus, tribulatusand/iuca、ishan,allwithhomodynamesculpture,thenewformjs
discriminatedby largersize(mostspecimensofkishimoto1nov measure more than
30mmeveninmale),robusterpronotumwithmoreprotrudedhindangles,anddiffer_
entlyshapedaedeaga1apex.Fromsubsp.changdensisofnorth-centralHunan,thenew
subspeciesisdiscriminatedmainlybydifferentlyshapedaedeagus(cf.DEuvE, lg97,p
218, fig.13).Thenewracecannotbeidenticalwithsubsp.1ongshengenslsdescribed
byDEuVEandTIAN(1999)fromnortheasternGuangxi,sincethecolorationoflegsand
theshapeoftheaedeagalapexseemdifferent,thoughthedescriptionoftheGuangxj
「aceistoopoortobecitedforacomparativestudy.Judgingfromthebasicstructureof
theendopha11us,Calabuslnftrmio' doubtlessbelongstothesamelineagecontajnjng
1aOShanlcusandcyanopterus,whichconstructsoneofthesub-clustersoftheljneage3
onthegenealogicaltreesgivenbyKIMeta1.(1999,pp644-645,figs.1A&B).The
newsubspeciesisnamedafterDr.ToshioKlsHIMoToofTokyoUniversityofAgricul_
ture.
3. Ca「abuS(Coptolabrus)prt''tcipalisprincipalisBATES,1889
Ca'abils(CoPtolab''us)P''i1'ctpalis:IMURA,2000,Gekkan-Mushi,Tokyo,(356),p
it,fig5.
Length:41.1mm(includingmandibles).
SPeCime1' examined. 1?,easternsideofPassFenshuiling[分水1冷] ](1,320m),at
Taiping-qu [太平区] ofHefeng Xian [鶴峰 ],SW.Hubei, chjna, 12_vl_2000, Y
IMURA&T.KISHIMOT01eg.
Notes. Asinglefemalespecimenwastrappedon ratheradriedfloorofathjn
fo「estCOmpOSedofplantedlacquertreesontheeasternslopeofthepassFenshujljng
It iSSympat「CI withCatabus(・‘ipotomopterus)prote1,esandC. (4.)mfjrmjol kjshj_
motelnov.
FourCarabid BeetlesfromHubeiandHunan 221
4. Carabus(Coptolabrus)augustusignlgenaHAUSER,1914
Calabus(Coptolabrus)atlgustusignlgena:IMuRA,2000,Gekkan-Mushi,Tokyo,(356),p it,fig 6.
Length:42.5mm(includingmandibles).
Specimene)camined. 1?, Liangshuijing-cun [涼水井村] (780-800m) inDa'an
Xiang [大安 ] ofLongshan Xian [-ji山 ],NWHunan,China, 13-VI-2000, Y.
IMURA&T.KISHIMOT01eg.
Notes.・. This species was collected, together with Carabus (Apotomopterus)
protenesandC.(A) inftrm1orkishimotoinov., fromaratherdeepsecondaryforestre-
majnjngontheeasternslopeofasmallhillbehindthevillageofLiangshuijing-cun.
要 約
井村有希:中国湖北省南西部と湖南省北西部におけるオサムシ4種の記録. - 2000年度
の中国調査において,湖北省南西部と湖南省北西部から得られた4種のオサムシ (トゲオサム
シ2種とカブリモドキ2種) を記録した. これらのうち, ヒメトゲオサムシCa,・abus(Apoto'no-
pterus)irf,r1n,o,については新亜種と認め, kishimofo'nov.という名を与えて記載した.
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