Gutta Wrase & Schmidt, 2006

Guéorguiev, Borislav, 2015, Description of a second species of subgenus Gutta Wrase & Schmidt, 2006 from China (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 2 (4), pp. 289-294 : 290

Subgenus Gutta Wrase & Schmidt, 2006

The main features that define this group are:

1/ elytra with microsculpture pattern isodiametric;

2/ head large, in relation to pronotum;

3/ pronotum round, with posterior angles nearly fully rounded;

4/ elytra pyriform, with completely rounded humeri and lacking humeral teeth;

5/ interval 3 of elytra with three setiferous punctures;

6/ apicolateral plica of elytron indistinct;

7/ hind wings strongly reduced;

8/ tarsomere 5 on all legs ventrally unsetose;

9/ median lobe of aedeagus with both ostium large, deflected to left and terminal lamella long; 10/ right paramere short, with distal part rounded.

The subgenus includes three species, P. (Gutta) phungaraziensis Wrase & Schmidt, 2006 , P. (Gutta) adulterinus Wrase & Schmidt, 2006 , and P. (Gutta) gaoligongensis Wrase & Schmidt, 2006 ( Wrase & Schmidt 2006). The first two species occur in northern Myanmar, while the third taxon lives in the northwestern part of Chinese province of Yunnan. Most likely, the East Himalayan mountainous chain, including the massifs of Hkakabo Razi and Gaoligong Shan, located west of the Salween River has served as area of differentiation of the species.