Solodovnikov Alexey, Hansen Aslak Kappel
Zoological Museum (at the Natural History Museum of Denmark), Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100 Denmark.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2016 Sep 26;4170(3):475-490. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.3.3.
Hypogean species of Quedius, one of the largest North Hemisphere beetle genera, are reviewed in connection with the discovery of a new peculiar, brachypterous and microphtalmous species from the subgenus Microsaurus in the talus-based microhabitats of the Russian Far East. Morphology of that species here described as Quedius roma sp. n. suggests its affinity with the przewalskii-group from China and Nepal. Affinity of Q. roma to the abnormalis-group, a geographically more proximate and species-rich and presumably non-monophyletic assemblage of hypogean species from Japan and Taiwan, or to any other Holarctic Microsaurus is not supported morphologically. Two hypogean species from Europe, Q. bernhaueri Rambousek, 1915 and Q. doderoi Gridelli, 1922, are transferred from the subgenus Microsaurus to the subgenus Raphirus. The name Tenebrobius Rambousek, 1915, a subgenus where Q. bernhaueri was originally described, becomes a junior synonym of Raphirus Stephens, 1829.
作为北半球最大的甲虫属之一，隐翅虫属的地下物种现结合在俄罗斯远东地区基于岩屑坡的微生境中发现的隐翅虫亚属的一种新的奇特的、短翅且小眼的物种进行综述。在此被描述为罗马隐翅虫（Quedius roma sp. n.）的该物种形态表明其与来自中国和尼泊尔的普氏隐翅虫族具有亲缘关系。从形态学上看，罗马隐翅虫与异常隐翅虫族没有关联，异常隐翅虫族是一个地理上更接近且物种丰富且可能非单系的来自日本和台湾的地下物种组合，也与任何其他全北区的隐翅虫亚属没有关联。来自欧洲的两种地下物种，即1915年兰布塞克命名的贝氏隐翅虫（Quedius bernhaueri）和1922年格里德利命名的多氏隐翅虫（Quedius doderoi），从隐翅虫亚属转移到了裂隐翅虫亚属。1915年兰布塞克命名的Tenebrobius，即贝氏隐翅虫最初被描述所在的亚属，成为了1829年斯蒂芬斯命名的裂隐翅虫的次异名。
