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Issue: Vol. 4859 No. 2: 6 Oct. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4859.2.2
Page range: 195–227
Abstract views: 198
PDF downloaded: 11

Description of larvae of Japanese Macronychini (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae)

Hoshizaki Green Foundation, Sono, Izumo, 691–0076 Japan.
Nagoya City Public Health Research Institute, Anagahora 2266-132, Shimoshidami, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, 463-0003 Japan
Coleoptera aquatic beetle Byrrhoidea Dryopoidea immature stage Oriental Region Palaearctic Region riffle beetle

Abstract

Larvae of 15 species of Macronychini, subfamily Elminae, belonging to the genera Sinonychus Jäch & Boukal, Paramacronychus Nomura, Zaitzeviaria Nomura, Zaitzevia Champion, and Urumaelmis Satô were described based on scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation. Larvae of eleven of these species, S. tsujunensis Yoshitomi & Nakajima, Zaitzeviaria gotoi (Nomura), Zaitzeviaria brevis (Nomura), Zaitzeviaria kuriharai Kamite, Ogata & Satô, Zaitzevia elongata Nomura, Zaitzevia aritai Satô, Zaitzevia yaeyamana Satô, Zaitzevia awana (Kôno), Zaitzevia nitida Nomura, Zaitzevia tsushimana Nomura, and U. uenoi (Nomura) are described for the first time.

 

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