NOTES ON THE DUVALIUS SPECIES OF THE TAYGETOS MASSIF (PELOPONNESE, SOUTHERN GREECE), WITH DESCRIPTION OF THE MALE FEATURES OF DUVALIUS (DUVALIUS) MIREI DEUVE, 2001 (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE)
Four species of genus <em>Duvalius</em> (<em>sensu</em> <em>stricto</em>) are known so far from caves and upper hypogean zone (M.S.S.) in the Taygetos massif (Peloponnese, Southern Greece): <em>Duvalius</em> (<em>Duvalius</em>) <em>taygetanus</em> Casale, 1979, <em>D</em>. (<em>D</em>.) <em>genesti</em> Casale & Vigna Taglianti, 1984, <em>D.</em> (<em>D</em>.) <em>diaphanus</em> (Rottenberg, 1874), and <em>D</em>. (<em>D</em>.) <em>mirei</em> Deuve, 2001. Two of them, <em>D. diaphanus</em> and <em>D. mirei</em>, are large sized, sibling species with reduced but still evident and pigmented eyes, syntopic at high altitude above 2000 m a.s.l.. The male features and characters of the male genitalia of <em>D. mirei</em> are here described for the first time, and compared with those of<em> D. diaphanus</em>. Furthermore, a key for identification of the four sympatric <em>Duvalius</em> species known so far from Taygetos Mt. is provided.