Laeocathaica minwui Pall-Gergely , 2022

Wu, Min, Shen, Wang & Chen, Zhong-Guang, 2023, Land snail diversity in central China: revision of Laeocathaica Moellendorff, 1899 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae), with descriptions of seven new species, ZooKeys 1154, pp. 49-147 : 49

Laeocathaica minwui Pall-Gergely, 2022

Figs 2A , 11A

Laeocathaica minwui Páll-Gergely in Páll-Gergely et al. 2022: 64, fig. 21.

Museum material.

SMF 95019 , holotype, one fms; Prov. Sze-chuan , West China; Slg. C. R. Böttger ex Möllendorff ex L. Fuchs . SMF 24255 a, five fms; O. Sy-tshuan. Ex. L. Fuchs, Slg. O. v. Möllendorff. The following lots of specimens labeled with L. subsimilis : SMF 6920: one fms; Sy-tshuan, W-China; Ex. Möllendorff, Slg. W. Kobelt . SMF 24263 , one fms; Kao-cha-hien; Ex. B. Schmacker 1893, Slg. O. Böttger . SMF 42563 , two fms; Chang-yang , China; ex B. Schmacker, Slg. O. Böttger .

Distribution.

Sichuan (type locality); Hubei (type locality).

Additional information of shell.

The protoconch is finely granulate. Spiral grooves are very weakly present. Bottom-umbilicus transition changes gently. Peristome is somewhat sinuate.

Figures

Figure 2. A distribution map of all known species of Laeocathaica Moellendorff, 1899 except L. anceyi (Moellendorff in Ancey, 1889), L. hisanoi Pall-Gergely, 2022, and L. leucorhaphe Moellendorff, 1899 whose precise localities are not known; white dots: the localities where no Laeocathaica species was ever found B distribution of the new species described in this paper, yellow dots: L. qingchuanensis Wu, sp. nov., green dot: L. zhengpingliui Wu, sp. nov., brown dots: L. parapolytyla Wu, sp. nov., white dot: L. qiminglii Wu, sp. nov., pink dot: L. cheni Wu, sp. nov., blue dots: L. qishilii Wu, sp. nov., orange dots: L. nordsiecki Wu, sp. nov. C distribution of L. carinifera (H. Adams, 1870) (green dots), L. qingchuanensis Wu, sp. nov. (yellow dots), and L. stenochone Moellendorff, 1899 (blue dots) D distribution of L. amdoana Moellendorff, 1899 (green dots), L. distinguenda Moellendorff, 1899 (pink dots), and L. tropidorhaphe Moellendorff, 1899 (blue dots) C equivalent to the larger box in (A), B, D equivalent to the smaller box in (A).

Figure 11. A Laeocathaica minwui Pall-Gergely, 2022, SMF 24255 a B L. christinae (H. Adams, 1870), HBUMM 01251 - spec. 1.