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F O L I A E N T O M O L O G I C A H U N G A R I C AR OVARTAN I KÖZL E M É N Y E K

Volume 79 2018 pp. 45–50

DOI: 10.17112/FoliaEntHung.2018.79.45

Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus paseki ssp. n. from the Southern Carpathians, Romania (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Imre Retezár

H-1115 Bartók Béla út 86, Hungary. E-mail: retezar@t-online.hu

Abstract – Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus paseki ssp. n. is described from the Southern Car-pathians (Romania). Th e new subspecies substantially diff ers from all forms of Carabus comptus Dejean, 1831 in the general body form and the sculpture of the elytra. With 17 fi gures.

Key words – Southern Carpathians, Morphocarabus, new subspecies, Romania

INTRODUCTION

In 2005 Miroslav Pašek (Přebotov, Czechia), an amateur coleopterist col-lected a series of Morphocarabus Géhin, 1885 specimens in the Vâlcan Mountains (Munții Vâlcan, Romania). Th e occurence of the subgenus Morphocarabus in this mountain range was not known. Th e specimens belong to C. (Morphocarabus) comptus Dejean, 1831. C. comptus with its three subspecies is distributed in the easternmost part of the Banat and the westernmost part of the Southern Carpathians (Retezár 2018). Th e specimens from the Vâlcan Mountains sub-stantially diff er from them and are described hereunder as a new subspecies.

TAXONOMY

Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus paseki ssp. n.(Figs 1–4, 11–16)

Type material – (Th e text labels of the type specimens are cited verbatim.) Holotype, male: “Romania, Mt. Vilcanului, Nera Campusel, 1615–1630 m. n. m., Cimpului Neag env., 7. VII. 2005, 45°15’21”, 22°54’29”, M. Pašek leg.” (coll. M. Pašek). Paratypes: same data as holotype (7 males, 9 females, coll. M. Pašek; 3 males, 3 females, coll. R. Sehnal, Umhošť; 1 male, 1 female coll. B. Březina, Praha; 1 male, 1 female, Hungarian Natural History Museum).

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Figs 1–4. Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus paseki ssp. n. (Câmpu lui Neag): 1 = male habitus, 2 = median part of male left elytron, 3 = female habitus, 4 = median part of female left elytron

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Figs 5–6. Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus comptus Dejean, 1831 (Pasul Poarta de Fier a Transil-vaniei): 5 = male habitus, 6 = median part of male left elytron. – Figs 7–8. Carabus (Morphocara-bus) comptus ulrichhofmanni Kleinfeld et Korell, 1986 (Borlova): 7 = female habitus, 8 = median

part of female left elytron

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Diagnosis – Th e new subspecies diff ers from the other subspecies of Carabus comptus by its smaller pronotum, with large, deep foveae, more elongate oval elytra with strong interrupted costae of the interspaces. Colour dark brown with weak lustre.

Description – Medium-sized, uniform specimens (Figs 1, 3). Body length 25–28 mm (including mandibules). Underside, legs and antennae black, head, pronotum and elytra dark brown, margins of pronotum and elytra with gold-en-greenish lustre. Head normal, frons coarsely, neck moderately wrinkled. Pronotum quadrate, broadest before middle, 1.4× as wide as long. Lobes of hind corners slightly protruding, rounded. Disc of pronotum densely set with large and deep foveae. Elytra elongate oval, 1.7× as long as wide, broadest behind mid-dle. Number of primary interspaces 4, all interspaces 17–19. Interspaces equal-ly wide, strongly costate, costae interrupted (Figs 2, 4). Lateral sides of elytra coarsely punctate, with numerous granules and tubercles. Aedeagus: Figs 11–13. Internal sac: Figs 14–15. Lacinia: Fig. 16.

Etymology – Th e new subspecies is dedicated to my Czech colleague Miroslav Pašek, who discovered it.

Figs 9–10. Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus szoerenyensis Csiki, 1908 (Munții Țarcului): 9 = fe-male habitus, 10 = median part of female left elytron

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Distribution – Th e new subspecies occurs in the Munții Vâlcan (Banat, Romania), on subalpine meadows at the altitude 1615–1630 m (Fig. 15). Th e only known locality is near Câmpu lui Neag (Kimpulunyág).

C. (Morphocarabus) comptus Dejean, 1831 is divided into the following sub-species with their distribution (Fig. 17):

C. comptus comptus Dejean, 1831 (= merkli Kraatz, 1880; = merklianus Gé-hin, 1885; = micotensis Lie, 1999) (Figs 5–6): Romania, Southern Carpathians, Mun ții Retezat (Retyezát) in mountain forests, 500–700 m.

C. comptus ulrichhofmanni Kleinfeld et Korell, 1986 (= cavarani Lie, 1989; = borlovensis Lie, 1994) (Figs 7–8): Románia, Banat, valley of the rivers Timiş (Temes) and Sebeş (Sebes) in mixed forests of hilly regions, 300–400 m.

C. comptus szoerenyensis Csiki, 1908 (= hopff garteni Kraatz, 1880; = dieneri Merkl, 1900) (Figs 9–10): Romania, Banat, Munții Poiana Ruskă (Ruszka-havas)

Figs 11–16. Carabus (Morphocarabus) comptus paseki ssp. n.: 11 = aedeagus, right lateral view, 12 = apical part of aedeagus, right lateral view, 13 = aedeagus, dorsal view, 14 = fully everted internal

sac, right lateral view, 15 = fully everted internal sac, frontal view, 16 = lacinia

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and Southern Carpathians, Munții Țarcului (Szárkő) in subalpine and alpine re-gions up to 2000 m.

C. comptus paseki ssp. n. (Figs 1–4): Romania, Southern Carpathians, Munții Vâlcan (Vulkán-hegység) on subalpine meadows, 1615–1630 m.

REFERENCE

Retezár I. 2018: Morphocarabus in the Carpathian Basin. – Private edition of I. Retezár, Budapest, 40 pp. + 61 plate.

Fig. 17. Distribution map with localities of C. (Morphocarabus) comptus Dejean, 1831: C. (M.) comptus comptus Dejean, 1831 (green dots), C. (M.) comptus szoerenyensis Csiki, 1908 (black dots), C. (M.) comptus ulrichhofmanni Kleinfeld et Korell, 1986 (blue dots), C. (M.) comptus paseki ssp.

n. (red dot)