Cave Beetles of the Genus Pseudanophthalmus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Kentucky, Krekeler 1973

JL ^FIELDIANA Zoology Published by Field Volume 62, Museum of Natural History November No 26, 1973 Cave Beetles of the Genus Pseudanophthalmus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Kentucky Bluegrass and Vicinity Carl H Krekeler Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind The first true cave carabids known from America, blind, depig- mented forms known as anophthalmids, were found in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky (Erichson, 1844) Between their discovery and 1957 about ten additional forms of anophthalmids were described from Kentucky by Motschoulsky (1862), Horn (1868, 1883), Garman (1892), and Jeannel (1931, 1949) In the same years, however, almost 50 species and subspecies of anophthalmids were described from Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia where collecting had been more intensive of these forms were described between 1928 and 1952 All but a few by Jeannel and turned out) that a rich Suspecting (correctly, as it Kentucky anophthalmid fauna remained to be found, we spent about five weeks of the summer of 1957 searching for anophthalmids in Valentine central Kentucky Specimens collected at that time constitute the majority of the specimens on which this paper is based At about the same time, Dr Thomas C Barr, Jr became interested in the anophthalmid fauna of Kentucky and has subsequently described (1959, 1962a) several Kentucky forms In order Barr and to avoid duplication have agreed that each of us will focus his attention on certain geographic areas and/or species groups Hence his papers in which Kentucky anophthalmids are considered have dealt with anophthalmids of the Mammoth Cave area and the of effort, Dr I Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-79267 US ISSN 0015-0754 Publication 1173 M"** c L '&KAr