A remarkably modified species of the tribe platynini (coleoptera, carabidae) from a limestone cave in jiangxi province, eastern china

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• who: Jianmei Pang from the Schmidt, )We treat this peculiar species a member of the genus Morimotoidius Habu, due to the fact that it shares the following combined generic characters with other species of this genus: pronotal setae absent, submentum quadrisetose, mesoand metatarsomeres , without subapical setae, meso- and metafemora bearing two or three setae, and tarsomeres , glabrous ventrally. Certainly, other remarkably modified characters such as the very elongate and rhadinoid body shape, the slender and markedly porrected mandibles, the very thin palps, reduced eyes, the markedly prolonged temples and the very small elytral base must be autapomorphies . . .
  

   

  

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