Dongodytodes Tian, 2011

Tian, Mingyi, Yin, Haomin & Huang, Sunbin, 2014, Du'an Karst of Guangxi: a kingdom of the cavernicolous genus Dongodytes Deuve (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae), ZooKeys 454, pp. 69-107 : 78

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Subgenus Dongodytodes Tian, 2011

Dongodytes (Dongodytodes) Tian, 2011: 57.

Type species.

Dongodytes (Dongodytodes) deharvengi Tian, 2011.

Type locality.

a limestone cave called Lubian Dong in Xia’ao, Du’an.

Diagnostic characters.

Body pubescent, covered with dense, erected short pubescence; antennae short, not extending over elytral apex; head stout and expanded posteriorly, suddenly constricted before neck constriction which is very short, posterior supraorbital setae always present; anterior dorsal pore on 3rd elytral stria absent, preapical pore present (Fig. 7); legs thin and elongate, but slightly stouter than in Dongodytes (s. str.), ventrite VII in male with a pair of paramedian setae (Fig. 26).

Distribution.

Northwestern Guangxi ( Du’an and Dahua Counties) (Fig. 73). Dongodytodes is composed of five species, all of them are occurring in Du’an Karst, and at the eastern (or northern) bank of the river Hongshui He. Each species is recorded from a single cave except Dongodytes jinzhuensis sp. n. (from two caves which are close to each other in Gaoling) and Dongodytes brevipenis sp. n. (from three caves which are very close to one another in Longwan and Chengjiang).