Duvalius (Neoduvalius) lohaji n. sp., a new remarkable subterranean taxon of the isotopic Trechini lineage from Dinaric karst, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae)

Abstract

A morphologically distinguished and isolated cavernicolous trechine beetle belonging to the isotopic Duvalius lineage was discovered in Dinarids, Western Bosnia, in hypogean environment, in the cave Mračna Pećina. Duvalius (Neoduvalius) lohaji n. sp., is described, illustrated and compared with the other Duvalius species of the Dinaric range, especially with Neoduvalius taxa. In addition, taxonomical considerations about Duvalius-related genera that exhibit aphaenopsian morphology are given.

Krešiči (Coleoptera: Carabidae) zgornjega toka reke Neretve v Bosni in Hercegovini

“…In comparison, faunistic studies on the country's ground beetle fauna are rare. Bosnian carabid material is occasionally considered in the context of revisions (e. g. Jaeger 2007;Guéorguiev & Lohaj 2008;Bonavita & Vigna Taglianti 2010) and there are frequent descriptions of new species from caves (Ćurčić et al 2012;Lohaj & Mlejnek 2012;Quéinnec & Ollivier 2021). Some papers also deal with the distribution of individual species within the genus Carabus (e. g. Jambrošić Vladić et al 2018;Rapuzzi & Kleinfeld 2018;Kulijer et al 2019).…”