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Issue: Vol. 1059 No. 1: 7 Oct. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-10-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1059.1.3
Page range: 39–47
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 5

Four new species of Desmopachria Babington from Peru (Coleoptera:  Dytiscidae)

Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 USA
Coleoptera Neotropical diving beetle phylogeny rain forest

Abstract

Four new species in the genus Desmopachria Babington are described from Madre de Dios, Peru: D. pilosa Miller, n. sp. (D. convexa species group), D. balionota Miller, n. sp. (D. nitida species group), D. annae Miller, n. sp. (D. nitida species group), and D. tambopatensis Miller, n. sp. (ungrouped). Diagnostic characters, including habiti and male genitalia, are described and illustrated.

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    Young, F.N. (1981) Predaceous water beetles of the genus Desmopachria Babington: the convexa-grana group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, 2, 1–9.

    Young, F.N. (1986) Predaceous water beetles of the genus Desmopachria Babington: the nitida-group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 40, 269–271.