On a new cave-dwelling beetle (Trechinae, Carabidae) from Serbia

Abstract

In the present study, a new cavernicolous beetle has been described from Serbia: Pheggomisetes ninae n. sp. (Trechinae, Carabidae). All important taxonomic features have been diagnostified and illustrated. Pheggomisetes ninae n. sp. is the first known species from the genus inhabiting Serbia and Montenegro, and it is easily distinguished from all other species and subspecies of Pheggomisetes Knirsch. The new species belongs to an old separate phyletic lineage of Mesogeid origin. This species is both relict and endemic to Serbia and the Balkan Peninsula.