Epaphiotrechus fortipesoides, Deuve & Kavanaugh & Liang, 2016

Deuve, Thierry, Kavanaugh, David H. & Liang, Hongbin, 2016, Inventory of the Carabid Beetle Fauna of the Gaoligong Mountains, Western Yunnan Province, China: Species of the Tribe Trechini (Coleoptera: Caraboidea), with Descriptions of Four New Genera, One New Subgenus and 19 New Species., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (12), pp. 341-455 : 425

Key for Identification of Adults of Epaphiotrechus Species of the Gaoligong Shan Region

1. Median tooth of mentum small and simple, apex not bifid; elytra with stria 5 distinctly deepened at the base, recurrent stria short, terminated anteriorly at a slight convexity at apex of stria 5; preapical seta inserted equidistant from both apical and sutural margins........................................................................... E. fortipes (Uéno) Median tooth of mentum long and wide, apex bifid; elytra with stria 5 not or only faintly deepened at the base, recurrent stria long, terminated anteriorly at a slight convexity at apex of stria 6; preapical seta inserted closer to sutural than to apical margin... E. fortipesoides sp. nov.