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Issue: Vol. 2358 No. 1: 12 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2358.1.4
Page range: 49–56
Abstract views: 107
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Hydroscapha LeConte from northwestern Venezuela(Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae)

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, 1140 E. South Campus Drive, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66049
Coleoptera Neotropical Region aquatic beetles taxonomy new species

Abstract

During the course of recent fieldwork on Venezuelan aquatic insects, a new species of Hydroscaphidae, Hydroscapha perijaensis Hall & Short sp. n., was discovered and is herein described, representing the first known South American species of the genus. The new species was found in association with rock seepages in both the wet and dry seasons. Locality data is provided, plus dorsal and ventral habitus images of both sexes, along with key characters separating the new taxon from other species within the genus.

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