Brownephilus major ( Incekara , Mart, Polat, & Karaca, 2009) Incekara, Mart, Polat, & Karaca, 2009

Darilmaz, Mustafa C., Kiyak, Suat & Short, Andrew E. Z., 2010, Discovery of the water scavenger beetle genus Brownephilus Mouchamps in Turkey (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilini, ZooKeys 53, pp. 13-16 : 14

Brownephilus major ( Incekara, Mart, Polat, & Karaca, 2009) comb. n. Figures 1-2, 45

Hydrochara major İncekara, Mart, Polat, & Karaca, 2009: 318.

Type locality.

Turkey: Samsun Province, Ondokuzmayıs, Fish Lake, 41°35'10"N; 36°06'42"E, 0 m elev.

Material examined.

TURKEY:Afyon Province: 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Dinar (Karakuyu Lake), 38°04.587"N; 30°16.505"E, 1020 m, 22.V.2009; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same locality, 20.VI.2009 (specimens are deposited in the Gazi University Zoological Museum, Ankara, Turkey, and the Snow Entomological Collection, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA).

Differential diagnosis.

Total body length 20.0-21.5 mm. Very similar to Brownephilus levantinus , from which it may be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagus: the outer margins of the parameres are slightly sinuate medially, with the apex noticeably prolonged apically in Brownephilus levantinus (Fig. 3) while they are straight with the apex only slightly prolonged apically in Brownephilus major (Fig. 2).

Biology.

All collecting events for this species were from the margins of moderately to densely vegetated, standing waters (Fig. 4).