High times in the Himalaya: Ground beetle phylogeography as a tool to unravel the Himalayan-Tibetan orogenesis

喜马拉雅山的鼎盛时期：地面甲虫系统发育地理学作为解开喜马拉雅-西藏造山运动的工具

• 批准号: 240705358
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Lars Opgenoorth
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/240705358?language=en
• 关键词: times; Himalaya; Ground; beetle; phylogeography

The primary goal of this study is to establish the highly diverse species groups of modern ground beetles as a new proxy to derive successions of mountain uplift and paleoenvironments and to assess the paleoelevation of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen (HTO). The particular suitability of the high altitude ground beetles is based on the existence of a large number of species that showcase obligatory winglessness. These species are extremely weak dispersers because of this trait. Their evolution necessarily is closely linked to the environmental history of the mountain system. In this proposal, we focus on studying the successions on the southern margin of the HTO (Himalaya, South Tibet). The initial confinement of the investigation to this area is due to the complexity of the orogeny, the enormous diversity of the species groups we address, and due to the limited duration of the proposal. Nevertheless, the orogeny of the southern HTO is of unique significance for the geology, paleoclimatology, and biogeography of the area for the following reasons: i) most of the modern geological models differ with respect to the uplift history of this part of the mountain system; ii) the uplift of the High Himalaya markedly influences the climate in the interior of High Asia as well as on a global scale; iii) South Tibet was likely an important evolution center during the Cenozoic and impacted the modern faunas of Central and East Asia.

高海拔地面甲虫的特殊适应性是基于大量物种的存在，这些物种表现出必要的无翅。由于这个特点，这些物种是非常弱的分散者。它们的演变必然与山地系统的环境历史密切相关。由于造山运动的复杂性，我们所研究的物种群的巨大多样性，以及由于提案的持续时间有限，初步限制了对该地区的调查。

项目成果

New species of the genus Chydaeus from China, Nepal, Myanmar, and Thailand, with remarks on species previously described (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini).

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.1.1
• 发表时间: 2014-02
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: B. M. Kataev;D. Wrase;J. Schmidt

Description of Kashmirobroscus gen. nov. with two new species from the Northwest Himalaya, and remarks on the East Asian genus Eobroscus Kryzhanovskij, 1951 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)

对来自喜马拉雅山西北部的新种克什米尔罗斯卡斯属 (Kashmirobroscus gen nov) 和两个新种的描述，以及对东亚 Eobroscus Kryzhanovskij 属的评论，1951 年（鞘翅目：步甲科：Broscini）

• DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791952
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Journal of Natural History
• 影响因子: 0.8
• 作者: Schmidt;Sciaky
• 通讯作者: Sciaky

Description of the first flightless platynine ground beetle preserved in Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

波罗的海琥珀中保存的第一种不会飞的地甲虫的描述（鞘翅目：步甲科）

• DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.1.4
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Zootaxa
• 影响因子: 0.9
• 作者: Schmidt;Göpel
• 通讯作者: Göpel