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the posterior end of stria 5. Only one discal setiferous pore present, inserted slightly anterior to
middle next to stria 3. Preapical seta present, inserted on interval 3 next to stria 2 and about equidistant
from apical and sutural elytral margin.
Legs. Short, protibiae with longitudinal furrow. Male protarsomeres 1 and 2 dilated and apicomedially
toothed.
Abdomen. Abdominal ventrites glabrous, except for a single paramedial seta on each side, and
ventrite VII of males apically with one pair of paramedial setae, of females with two pairs.
Male aedeagus. Median lobe (Fig. 30b) with sagittal aileron very small, shaft moderately
broad basally, then gradually narrowed, with apex moderately broad and apically rounded, slightly
deflected ventrally; endophallus with an elongate and scaly sclerotized area not narrowed apically.
COMMENTS.— This species appears to be very closely related (perhaps sister species) to T.
unipilosa sp. nov., but its male members can be distinguished from those of the latter by having the
base of the median lobe of the male aedeagus broader (narrower in T.unipilosa members, see Fig.
31b) and the scaly sclerotized area of the endophallus of more equal width throughout and not narrowed
distally (as it is in T.unipilosa males).
HABITAT DISTRIBUTION.— Members of this species have been collected by sifting leaf litter
and mosses from the floor of closed canopy forest with an understory of ferns and large-leafed (ca.
60 cm long leaves) Rhododendron sp. at elevations ranging from 2775 to 2830 m (Fig. 42a). At the
lowest elevation, specimens of Trechus qiqiensis were collected in the same litter samples. One
specimen was also found under stones or wood chips in a disturbed open meadow area surrounded
by one meter high Rhododendron thickets at an elevation of 3750 m (Fig. 38b); and specimens
of Queinnectrechus griswoldi were found in this same area
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE GAOLIGONG SHAN.— Fig. 30c. we examined a
total of 57 specimens (23 males and 34 females) from sites on the crest or eastern slope of the
northern part of the Gaoligong Shan in Gongshan County (see Type material above for exact collection
data). All of these sites are in Core Area 2.
OVERALL GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.— This species currently is known only from Gongshan
County in the northern part of the Gaoligong Shan region, western Yunnan Province, China.
Trechepaphiopsis unipilosa Deuve and Liang, sp. nov.
(Figs. 31, 40b, 46–48)
TYPE MATERIAL.— Holotype, a male, in IOZ, labeled: “CASENT 1023757”/ “CHINA, Yunnan,
Fugong County, Lishadi Township, 8.5 km above Shibali on Shibali Road, North Fork of
Yamu He, N27.18416°/E98.72026°,”/ “3100 m, 7 May 2004 Stop #DHK-2004-038A D.H.
Kavanaugh, C.E. Griswold, Liang H.-B., & Zhu B.-X. collectors”/ “HOLOTYPE Trechepaphiopsis
unipilosa Deuve & Liang, sp. nov. designated 2016” [red label]. Paratypes (at total of 17): 2
females (in CAS, IOZ) labeled: same as holotype, except first label “CASENT 1023746” and
“CASENT 1023758”, respectively; 1 male and 2 females (in CAS, IOZ) labeled: “CASENT
1017488” and “CASENT 10174896” to “CASENT 1017490”, respectively/ “CHINA, Yunnan,
Fugong County, Lumadeng Township, 8.5 km above Shibali on Shibali Road, south bank of North
Fork of Yamu He, N27.18326°/ E98.72002°”/ 3100 m, 8 August 2005 Stop #DHK-2005-067B
D.H. Kavanaugh, H.B. Liang, D.Z. Dong, & J.F. Zhang collectors”; 7 males and 1 female (in CAS,
IOZ, MNHN) labeled: “CASENT 1018375” to “CASENT 1018381” and “CASENT 1018382”,
respectively/ “CHINA, Yunnan, Fugong County, Lishadi Township, 10 km w of Shibali on Shibali
Road, 3250 m,”/ “N27.20055°/E98.71399°, 16 August 2005 Stop #PP-3805 P. Paquin collector”;
1 male (in CAS) labeled: “CASENT 1018392”/ “CHINA, Yunnan, Fugong County, Lishadi Town-