Chodsigoa hypsibia, LARVARUM THOMAS, 1911

Chen, Zhong-Zheng, He, Kai, Huang, Cheng, Wan, Tao, Lin, Liang-Kong, Liu, Shao-Ying & Jiang, Xue-Long, 2017, Integrative systematic analyses of the genus Chodsigoa (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae), with descriptions of new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180, pp. 694-713 : 708

CHODSIGOA HYPSIBIA LARVARUM THOMAS, 1911

Chodsigoa larvarum Thomas, 1911a: 49 .

Chodsigoa hypsibia larvarum – Allen, 1938: 106.

Type locality: Eastern Qing tombs, Hebei, China .

Remarks: Thomas (1912b) recognized an isolated population from Hebei as C. larvarum . This species was considered by Allen (1938) to be a subspecies of C. hypsibia and by Hoffmann (1985) as a synonym of C. hypsibia . Only a few specimens are known in scientific collections. Liu et al. (2011) captured two C. hypsibia larvarum in Shanxi and found them to be smaller than the nominal subspecies ( Table S5). They assigned them to C. h. larvarum and hypothesized the Yellow River as a likely geographic boundary between the two subspecies. We follow Liu et al. (2011) and retain C. h. larvarum as a subspecies. Nonetheless, a genetic study is warranted to test the distinctiveness of this subspecies, as well as all known geographic populations.

Distribution: Known from Beijing, Hebei and Shanxi. In Hebei, individuals were captured in a radish garden on a stony hill at 300 m ( Thomas, 1912b). In Shanxi, the taxon was captured in deciduous broadleaved forest at 1950 m ( Liu et al., 2011).