Cychrus schmidti, Chaudoir, 1837

Busato, Enrico, 2012, semigranosus Palliardi, 1825, with a key to the larvae of the European Cychrus species (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 3361, pp. 1-17 : 14

schmidti group

C. schmidti Chaudoir, 1837

C. hampei Gestro, 1874

C. rugicollis K. Daniel and J. Daniel, 1898

This homogeneous and well-defined group is probably related to the angustatus group. The larval affinities discussed in the present work, including the very close relationship between C. schmidti and C. cylindricollis , confirm this theory. Indeed C. hampei and the enigmatic C. rugicollis from Bosnia can be considered the Dinaric-Balkan vicariant species of C. schmidti .