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Issue: Vol. 4544 No. 1: 10 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.8
Page range: 125–134
Abstract views: 103
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species and immature stages of the skiff beetle genus Yara Reichardt and Hinton (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Hydroscaphidae) from Nicaragua

Laboratory of Hydrobiology. Research Center for Aquatic Resources of Nicaragua. National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. CIRA/UNAN-Managua.
Laboratory of Hydrobiology. Research Center for Aquatic Resources of Nicaragua. National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. CIRA/UNAN-Managua.
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
Coleoptera ecology aquatic beetles larva pupa Neotropics Central America

Abstract

Yara marmontsedu, a new species in the family Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga), is described and illustrated. Specimens of Y. marmontsedu were collected at the Pijibay Creek, tributary of the Mico River in Chontales, Nicaragua. The immature stages are described and illustrated for the first time for a species of Yara. This is a contribution to the knowledge of the water beetle fauna of Nicaragua.

 

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