Three new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from tropical South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
Giron, Jennifer C.
Short, Andrew Edward Z.
ZooKeys
2018
2018-06-19
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Girón & Short, 2018
Girón & Short
2018
Insecta
Hydrophilidae
Crucisternum
CoL
Animalia
Crucisternum toboganensis
Coleoptera
7
120
Arthropoda
species
toboganensis
sp. n.
Typematerial examined. Holotype (male): VENEZUELA: Amazonas: "Puerto Ayacucho (40 km S)/ El Tobogan, CanoCoromoto/ 26 January 1989/ CL2388, John T. Polhemus/ side stream/ head of lower falls" (USNM) Paratypes (2): Same data as holotype (1, USNM); same locality but leg. M. Balke (1, SEMC; DNA voucher SLE 734).
Differential diagnosis. Crucisternum toboganensisis nearly indistinguishable from C. ouboteribased on external characters beyond coloration (uniform along the body in C. toboganensis, paler pronotum in C. ouboteri). They can be recognized by characters of the aedeagus: the apical third of the parameres gradually narrow towards the apex, with straight outer margins in C. toboganensis(Fig. 6C), whereas in C. ouboterithe apical third of the parameres is parallel-sided and has sinuate outer margins (Fig. 6A, B).
Description. Body length 2.1-2.4 mm, width 1.2-1.3 mm. General coloration uniformly brown along body regions. Elytra with punctures rather sharply marked. Aedeagus (Fig. 6C) fusiform, widest slightly beyond mid length; median lobe gradually narrowing from basal fifth towards apical region; gonopore on apical region of median lobe; apical third of parameres gradually narrowing towards apex, with straight outer margins.
Etymology. Named after the type locality: El Tobogande la Selva in Venezuela.
Distribution. Venezuela (Amazonas). See Fig. 7.
Biology. Nothing is known about the biology of this species except that it was collected from the margin of the Rio Coromoto, the infamous locality for many water beetle species including the family Meruidae(see Spangler and Steiner 2005).