Revision of the Australian Zuphünae 4. The genus Parazuphium Jeannel (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)"-' By Martin Baehr Zoologische Staatssammlung München Abstract As a fourth part of a general revision of the Australian Zuphünae the genus Parazuphium Jeannel in Australia, New Guinea, and New Britain is revised. The known species Parazuphium mastersii (Castelnau) and P. rock-hamptonense (Castelnau) from Australia and P. sinuum (Darlington) from New Guinea have been hitherto classed among the genus Zuphium Latreille proper and are herewith transferred to Parazuphium Jeannel. The species are redescribed, the male genitalia of P. mastersii and P. sinuum arefirstlydescribed. The following species are newly described: P. tropicum spec. nov., P. darlingtoni spec. nov., P. harbarae spec. nov., P. flavescens spec. nov., and P. weiri spec. nov. In addition, P. harbarae is firstly recorded from New Guinea. The distribution of the species is mapped. As all Parazuphium species in the Australian-New Guinean area are very rare in collections, very little is known about their distribution and their life histories. It is to be expected, that in future the ränge of the species will be much better known. The relationships of the species and their phylogenetic Status is briefly discussed. The differences between the Australian-New Guinean species are discussed and presented in a key. Although some species look extremely simi-lar, it is possible to arrange them into three groups of apparently near relationships within. Ist group contains P. tropicum from Northern Australia and P. sinuum from New Guinea, New Britain, and Northern Australia. In many respects, these are by far the most primitive species in the area considered. 2nd group consists of P. darling-toni from northern Australia which is a rather derivative species and seems nearly related to Oriental species as f. e. P. philippense (Jedlicka). 3rd group contains P. mastersii, P. rockhamptonense, P. harbarae, P. flavescens, and P. weiri. The species are very nearly related and seem rather derivative, as they share some apomorphic characters. For that reason an own subgenus Austrozuphium subgen. nov. has been erected to include these species. The sub-genus is perhaps restricted to Australia and southern New Guinea. From distribution of species and species groups some ideas as to immigration and age of the fauna are derived. The genus Parazuphium is a tropical faunal dement which immigrated into Australia from the north. Nevertheless, as species of both, 1 st and 3rd groups were able to cross vast desert areas to colonize the isolated Hamersley Range in Western Australia, at least these groups cannot be regarded as recent immigrants to Australia. Age of the fauna, ho-wever, and immigration route is still unknown. Introduction The subf amily Zuphünae is a quite distinctive but not very numerous group of truncatipennian Car-abidae. Especially in Australia Zuphünae are rather heterogenous. The Australian Zuphiines are distri-buted in the Genera Zuphium Latreille, Parazuphium Jeannel, Acrogenys Macleay, Pseudaptinus '•' Supported by a travel grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 295
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