Dongodytes (s. str.) Deuve, 1993

Tian, Mingyi, Yin, Haomin & Huang, Sunbin, 2014, Du'an Karst of Guangxi: a kingdom of the cavernicolous genus Dongodytes Deuve (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechinae), ZooKeys 454, pp. 69-107 : 74-75

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Subgenus Dongodytes (s. str.) Deuve, 1993

Dongodytes Deuve, 1993: 292

Type species.

Dongodytes fowleri Deuve, 1993: 292.

Type locality:

Bama County: cave Jiabao Dong.

Diagnostic characters.

Body shiny and polished, antennae very long, extending over elytral apex, head elongate, genae gradually narrowed posteriad, not expanded medially, neck constriction long, posterior supraorbital setae present or not, head and pronotum glabrous or covered with sparse long and erected setae, elytra glabrous in most species (except for Dongodytes elongatus sp. n. which is wholly pubescent), anterior dorsal pore on 3rd stria present (Fig. 6); legs very elongate, more slender than in Dongodytodes ; ventrite VII in male with two pairs of paramedian setae in both sexes (Fig. 25).

Distribution.

Northwestern Guangxi ( Du’an, Bama, Fengshan and Tian’e Counties) (Fig. 73). Dongodytes (s. str.) is composed of six species. Three of them are recorded from Du’an County, and a single species is known in each of Bama, Fengshan and Tian’e Counties, respectively. Each species of Dongodytes (s. str.) is only known from a single limestone cave.