A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) from the West Caucasus
I.A. Belousov & A.G. Koval
Abstract. A new species of the genus Cimmerites Jeannel, 1928, C. maximovitchi sp. nov., is described from the Akhunskaya Cave and Labirintovaya Cave, both located in the Akhun Karst Massif on the Black Sea Coast of the West Caucasus (Krasnodar Territory, Russia). The new species is rather isolated within the genus Cimmerites and occupies an intermediate position between species related to C. kryzhanovskii Belousov, 1998 and species close to C. vagabundus Belousov, 1998. Though both C. maximovitchi sp. nov. and C. kryzhanovskii are still known only from caves, these species are quite similar in their life form to other members of the genus which are all true endogean species.
Key words: West Caucasus, Russia, caves, endogeans, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechini, Cimmerites, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2011, 20(1): 48-53 ▪ Published in print 28 July 2011
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2011.20.1.48 ▪ Open full article 
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