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Issue: Vol. 4189 No. 1: 9 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.1.10
Page range: 174–182
Abstract views: 167
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Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

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SNSB - Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstraße 21, D – 81247 München, Germany.
South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.
Coleoptera Dytiscidae Hydroporinae Tiporus new species lotic habitats northern Australia

Abstract

Tiporus queenslandicus sp. n. is described from NE Queensland. The new species is similar to T. undecimmaculatus (Clark, 1862) and T. giuliani (Watts, 1978) from the Northern Territory and north-western Australia but well characterized by its larger size, more elongate habitus, and form of median lobe and parameres. Tiporus queenslandicus sp. n. is a lotic species being collected from rest pools of intermittent creeks and rivers with a sandy bottom. Important species-defining characters (habitus, median lobe, paramere, protibia of male) are illustrated. Together with T. queenslandicus sp. n. the genus comprises now 13 species.

 

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