Tian Mingyi, Chen Mengzhen, Ma Zijun
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, No. 483, Wushan Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510642, China.
Zootaxa. 2020 Apr 22;4766(4):zootaxa.4766.4.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.4.4.
A new genus and two new species of cavernicolous trechine beetles are reported from southern Guizhou Province, Southwest China: Miaotrechus mahua n. gen., n. sp. from the cave Miaoting, Getuhe cave system, Ziyun Miao Buyi Zizhi Xian (Autonomous County), Anshun Shi; M. heweii n. sp. from the cave Jingua Dong, danzhai County, Qiandongnan Miao Dong Zizhizhou (Autonomous Prefecture). Miaotrechus might be related to the genus Guizhaphaenops Vigna Taglianti, 1997, but it is an Anophthalmus-like, whereas Guizhaphaenops species are semi-aphaenopsian.