Carabus mellyi

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Carabinae
Tribus: Carabini
Genus: Carabus
Division: Carabus div. Multistriati
Subdivision: Carabus subdiv. Procrustimorphi
Subgenus: Carabus (Neoplectes)
Species:
Subspecies: C. m. lichuanensis – C. m. mellyi – C. m. minxiensis

Carabus mellyi Chaudoir, 1846

Type locality: "Mont Sakao, en Imeretie (Radscha)"

• Carabus (Tribax) ibericus battoniellus Deuve, 1991: 25
  • Type locality: URSS, Géorgie, Oni, en forêt.
    • Holotype: coll. Battoni. male ♂.
• Carabus (Tribax) mellyi boulbenorum Deuve, 2015: 120
  • Type locality: Géorgie, au nord de Lentekhi, 1000 mètres.
    • Holotype: MNHN. male ♂. legit R. et A. Boulben.

The species is distributed in Central Georgia, on East part of Egrissian Mts.R., South slopes of Central part of Svanetian Mts.R, Lechkhumskiy Mts.R. and Koz lake env.

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• Deuve, T. 2015. Note sur la variation géographique de Carabus (Tribax) mellyi Chaudoir, 1846, et C. (T.) ibericus Fischer, 1824 (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Coléoptères 21(10): 119–126. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Fominykh, D.D., Zamotajlov, A.S. & Titarenko, A.Y. 2016. Further contribution to the knowledge of Georgian species of the Carabus Linnaeus, 1758 subgenus Neoplectes Reitter, 1885, with description of a new subspecies of C. titarenkoi Zamotajlov & Fominykh, 2014 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Carabini). Zootaxa 4179(3): 561–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.10 Reference page. 
• Retezár I. 2011. Investigation on endophallic structure of the subgenus Carabus (Neoplectes) Reitter, 1885 (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. Vol.72: pp.1–12. Reference page. 
• Retezar, I. & Djavelidze, I. 1992. A New Carabus (Neoplectes) Species from the Central Caucasus (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica Vol 52, pp 89–92. PDF Reference page. 
• Zamotajlov, A.S. & Fominykh, D.D. 2014. A study on Georgian species of the Carabus Linnaeus, 1758 subgenus Neoplectes Reitter, 1885 (Coleoptera: Carabidae), with description of a new species. Euroasian Entomological Journal 13(6): 522–526.Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Lorenz, W. 2018. CarabCat: Global database of ground beetles (version Oct 2017). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 20th December 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page.  [accessed on December 2, 2018]