A new endogean, anophthalmous species of Parazuphium Jeannel from Northern Morocco (Coleoptera, Carabidae), with new molecular data for the tribe Zuphiini

作者：Andujar Carmelo^*; Hernando Caries; Ribera Ignacio

来源：ZooKeys, 2011, (103): 49-62.

DOI：10.3897/zookeys.103.1124

• Taxonomy
• new species
• Parazuphium
• identification key
• endogean fauna
• molecular phylogeny

A new species of the genus Parazuphium (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Zuphiini), Parazuphium aguilerai sp. 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 P. feloi Machado 1998 from a lava tube in the Canary Islands. Molecular data of the only known I? 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.

• 出版日期2011