Andújar Carmelo, Hernando Carles, Ribera Ignacio
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Murcia. 30071 Murcia, Spain.
Zookeys. 2011(103):49-62. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.103.1124. Epub 2011 Jun 10.
A new species of the genus Parazuphium (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Zuphiini), Parazuphium aguileraisp. n., is described from the Tingitan peninsula in North Morocco. The only known specimen was found under a large deeply buried boulder, and belongs to an anophthalmous, depigmented and flattened species. This is the second species of blind Parazuphium known so far, the other being Parazuphium feloi Machado 1998 from a lava tube in the Canary Islands. Molecular data of the only known Parazuphium aguilerai sp. n. specimen are provided, and a reconstructed phylogeny based on these molecular data confirms its inclusion inside Zuphiini within Harpalinae. Identification keys to the Mediterranean and Macaronesian species of Parazuphium are provided.
描述了Parazuphium属(鞘翅目,步甲科,Zuphiini族)的一个新物种,即摩洛哥北部廷吉塔纳半岛的阿吉莱拉Parazuphium(Parazuphium aguilerai)新种。唯一已知的标本是在一块深埋的大石头下发现的,属于一种无眼、无色素沉着且扁平的物种。这是迄今为止已知的第二种盲Parazuphium属物种,另一种是1998年在加那利群岛的一个熔岩管中发现的费洛Parazuphium(Parazuphium feloi)。提供了唯一已知的阿吉莱拉Parazuphium新种标本的分子数据,基于这些分子数据重建的系统发育证实了它被归入Harpalinae亚科的Zuphiini族。还提供了Parazuphium属在地中海和马卡罗尼西亚物种的鉴定检索表。