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Issue: Vol. 2921 No. 1: 16 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2921.1.6
Page range: 56–64
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 4

Stegoelmis Hinton, 1939 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) in Brazil: two new species and a key to the Brazilian species

Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais e Ações Conservacionistas, CEP: 74805-370, Goiânia, GO, Brazil Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), CEP: 37-49, 08003, Barcelona, Spain Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Zoologia. Av. Pasteur, 458-4°. andar, CEP: 22290-240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Zoologia. Av. Pasteur, 458-4°. andar, CEP: 22290-240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Divisão de Curso em Entomologia, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, CEP: 69011-970 Manaus, AM, Brazil
Coleoptera aquatic insects Neotropics riffle beetle Stegoelmis taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Stegoelmis Hinton, 1939, S. figueiredoensis sp. nov. from Amazonas State, Brazil and S. shepardi sp. nov. from Roraima State, Brazil and Saint Laurent Du Maroni, French Guiana, are described and illustrated based on adult specimens. This work also provides a taxonomic key to males of Stegoelmis species known from Brazil.

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    Hinton, H.E. (1939) On Some New Genera and Species of Neotropical Dryopoidea (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 89 (3), 23–45.

    Sanderson, M.W. (1953) New species and a new genus of New World Elmidae with supplemental keys. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 7, 33–40.

    Spangler, P.J. (1990) A revision of the Neotropical aquatic beetle genus Stegoelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 479, 52pp.