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Issue: Vol. 4614 No. 1: 7 Jun 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.1.7
Page range: 160–172
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 3

Validation of Heterocerus heydeni Kuwert, 1890 based on morphology and DNA barcoding, with notes on the problems of classification of the Heteroceridae (Coleoptera)

Russian Entomological Society, Samara, Russia.
Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Yaroslavl’ Province, Borok, 152742 Russia.
Zoology Lab, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK-84523, Slovakia.
Coleoptera Byrrhoidea Heteroceridae synonymy sibling species DNA barcoding Central Asia European Russia BOLD

Abstract

New taxonomic data on mud-loving beetles are provided based on morphological characters and DNA barcoding. Heterocerus heydeni Kuwert, 1890 was previously considered a junior synonym of H. flexuosus Stephens, 1828, but we support the validity of the species and restore the name. H. heydeni is redescribed, based on material from Central Asia and European part of Russia. Specimens of H. hauseri Kuwert, 1893 were also studied, suggesting it as a possible junior synonym of H. heydeni. We provide new DNA barcodes for H. flexuosus and Augyles cf. flavidus and comment on Heterocerus barcode data published in Barcode Of Life Data Systems (BOLD).

 

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