Zhijinaphaenops jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015

Tian, Mingyi, Cheng, Guangyuan & Huang, Sunbin, 2021, A contribution to the knowledge of cave-adapted ground beetles from Guiyang, central Guizhou Province, southwestern China (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini), ZooKeys 1075, pp. 175-198 : 175

Zhijinaphaenops jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015

(Chinese name: 景丽织盲步甲) Figures 1 , 9B-D, F-H , 10C, D , 12 , 13

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Material.

2 males & 1 female, Guizhou : Guiyang , Xifeng , Xishan , Shenli, Mafen Dong cave (息烽县西山镇马粪洞), 27°04'N, 106°37'E, 1157 m, 2020-II-29, leg. Guangyuan Cheng ; 1 male, Guizhou , Guiyang , Xifeng , Xinlong, Wenquan Dong (息烽县温泉镇温泉洞), 27°11'N, 106°49'E, 916 m, 2020-VII-18, leg. Jingli Cheng.

Diagnosis.

A medium-sized Zhijinaphaenops species, wholly brown and pubescent, head narrow, with thin and very long antennae which extend beyond of elytral apices. Habitus as in Figure 12 A .

Remarks.

Zhijinaphaenops jingliae was recorded from Zhangkou Dong cave near Musa village, Shidong Zhen, Xifeng County ( Deuve and Tian 2015). In 2020, this species was found in two caves of the same county, Mafen Dong (Xishan Zhen) and Wenquan Dong (Wenquan Zhen). Morphological characteristics including male genitalia of individuals from the above two caves are identical to the holotype specimen (Figs 9B-D, F-H , 10C, D ).

Distribution.

China (Guizhou). Known from three limestone caves in Xifeng County, northern Guiyang (Fig. 1 ).

Mafen Dong cave (Fig. 12B ) is about 600 m from Mafen village, only 5 km away Zhangkou Dong cave in the east. The individuals of Z. jingliae were found running on the ground in a dark area not far from the entrance.

Wenquan Dong cave is near Xinglong village, about 30 km from Zhangkou Dong. It opens via quite large entrance in a small hill of a valley and is surrounded by bushes, (Fig. 13A ). There are two large chambers inside and a main passage about two hundred meters long. There is a pool at the bottom of the first chamber. A large part of the cave is moist and maintains good conditions for cave animals (Fig. 13B, C ). Apart from the single beetle of Zhijinaphaenops jingliae , other cave arthropod animals found in this cave were spiders and crickets (Fig. 13D-F ).

Figures

Figure 1. A distribution map of cavernicolous trechine beetles in Guiyang, central Guizhou Province. Triangles: Haixiaphaenops gen. nov.; dots: Zhijinaphaenops; squares: Sinaphaenops 1 H. jinxiaohongae sp. nov. / Changtu Dong 2 H. jinxiaohongae sp. nov. / Dawan Dong 3 Z. zhaofeii sp. nov. / Zhangkou Dong 4 Z. liuae Deuve & Tian, 2015 / Hejia Dong 5 a Z. jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015 / Zhangkou Dong 5 b Z. jingliae / Mafen Dong 5 c Z. jingliae / Wenquan Dong 6 S. lipoi Chen et al. 2020 / Da Dong 7 a S. chengguangyuani Ma et al. 2020 / Shuijing Dong 7 b S. chengguangyuani / Duocai Dong 7 c S. chengguangyuani / Jianlong Dong.

Figure 9. Head (A-D) and elytral chaetotaxy (E-H) of Zhijinaphaenops species A, E Z. zhaofeii sp. nov. B-D, F-H Z. jingliae B, F from Zhangkou Dong in Musan, type locality C, G from Mafen Dong D, H from Wenquan Dong. Scale bar: 1.0 mm (A-H).

Figure 10. Male genitalia of Zhijinaphaenops species, lateral view and apical lobe in dorsal view A, B Z. zhaofeii sp. nov. C, D Z. jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015. Scale bar for A-D.

Figure 12. Mafen Dong cave, a new locality of Zhijinaphaenops jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015 A habitus of a male beetle discovered in Mafen Dong B place where beetles were discovered.

Figure 13. Wenquan Dong cave, a locality of Zhijinaphaenops jingliae Deuve & Tian, 2015 and its sympatric arthropods A entrance B, C environ inside cave D a spider with an egg sac E a running individual of Z. jingliae F a Tachycines cricket.