Kinship Between Carabus (Morphocarabus) rothi Dejean, 1829 and Carabus (Morphocarabus) alutensis Săvulescu, 1972

Certain criteria such as geographical proximity and a nearby elytra sculpture has suggested a phylogenetic relationship between Dejean and Săvulescu. The use of mitochondrial markers (COI, cyt b) shows: the presence of 3 haplotypes, geographically presents in two regions: southern Transylvania (distributed in North, Centre, South) and Cozia Mountains. The populations from South stations of Transylvania (Bradu, Cisnădioara, Turnu Roșu) and those from Cozia Mountains are identical genetic structure despite the distance, assuming two independent origins with the same maternal phylogeny. On the left bank of the Olt River and Cozia Mountains, and are identical to the from south stations and result without any doubt from a common ancestor. Therefore, there is a close parental relation between on the left bank of the Olt River and from the south, the other geographical origins of ( ) being distinct.