Hydroporus bodemeyeri guignoti Gschwendtner, 1935

Hájek, Jirí & Fikácek, Martin, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the Hydroporus bodemeyeri species complex (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with a geometric morphometric analysis of body shape within the group, Journal of Natural History 44 (27 - 28), pp. 1631-1657 : 1643-1645

Hydroporus bodemeyeri guignoti Gschwendtner, 1935 stat. nov.

Hydroporus guignoti Gschwendtner, 1935: 205 (original description).

Hydroporus (Hydroporinus) guignoti: Zaitzev 1953: 177 (description).

Hydroporus (Heterosternus) bulgaricus Hlisnikovský, 1955: 100 (original description) syn. revid.

Hydroporus (Sternoporus) bodemeyeri: Guéorguiev 1965: 102 (notes); Wewalka 1971: 211 (distribution; partim); 1974: 106 (synonymy); Guéorguiev 1987: 74 (description).

Hydroporus bodemeyeri: Miller and Fery 1995: 409 (partim).

Type locality. H. guignoti : “ Albanien (Tirana)” [ Albania, ca. 7 km north-east of Tirana, Mal i Dajtit, ca. 41°21′ N, 19°55′ E]; H. bulgaricus : “Paril, Alibotuš planina,

Bulgaria occid.” [nowadays called Slavyanka Mountains , ca. 20 km south-west of Gotse Delchev, ca. 41°25′ N, 23°37′ E] .

Type material. H. guignoti : Holotype female [sic!] ( OLML): “MAL-I-DAJTIT/ TIRANE [handwritten] // ALBANIA / LEG. BISCHOFF / 1931 [handwritten] // Type Ƌ / Gsch. [= Gschwendtner] [handwritten, pink label] // Coll. / Gschwendtner [printed] // Hydroporus / Guignoti Gsch [handwritten] / det. Gschwendt. [printed] // Type [handwritten, red label] // Hydroporus / guignoti Gschw. / = bodemeyeri Ganglb. [handwritten] / det. Wewalka 70 [printed]” . Paratypes ( OLML) : one female, same label data as holotype, but “ Paratype ” instead of “Type” ; one female, “Parnass / Graecia [printed] // Type ♀ / Gsch. [handwritten, pink label] // Coll. / Gschwendtner [printed] // Hydr. ♀ II / Guignoti Gsch. [handwritten] / det. Gschwendt. [printed] // Type [handwritten, red label] // Hydroporus / guignoti Gschw. / = bodemeyeri Ganglb. [handwritten] / det. Wewalka 70 [printed]” ; one male, one female, same label data as holotype, but “ Paratype ” instead of “Type”. H. bulgaricus : Holotype female [sic!] ( NMPC): “Alibotuš pl. [planina, = mountains] / Bulg. [Bulgaria], 15.6.[19]38 / Hlisnikowski [printed, date handwritten] // Type [printed, red label with black frame] // Coll. Hlisnikovský / Mus. Nat. Pragae [printed] // HYDROPORUS / BULHARICUS [sic!] HLIS. [handwritten] / det. Hlisnikovský 1952 [printed]” ( NMPC) .

Additional material examined. Albania: one female, Borske , 1940, Bischoff leg. ( OLML) . Bulgaria: five males, two females, Blagoevgrad distr., Sandanski env., valley of Lebnica river , stream, 26 May 1998, J. Hájek leg. ( HFCB, NMPC) ; one male, Kurdzhali distr., Kaloyantsi env., stream, 28 June 1999, J. Hájek leg. ( NMPC) ; three males, one female, Smolyan distr., 3 km west Smolyan, Gerzovica stream valley, 4 July 1999, J. Hájek leg. ( HFCB, NMPC) . Greece: one male, two females, Aitoloakarnania distr., 30 km south of Agrénion , 4 May 1971, G. Wewalka leg. ( HFCB, NMPC) ; four males, one female, Levkás Island , 11 September 1988, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; one male, Thásos Island [Kavala distr.], Megálos Prínos , 11 September 1991, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; two males, one female, Thásos Isl. , N Theológos, 12.ix.1991, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; 1 female, Thásos Island, Potamiás , 13 September 1991, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; three females, Euboea Island [Evvoia distr.], Steni-Stroponas , 700-900 m, 30 September 1992, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; three females, Samothráki Island, [Évros distr.], 1 km west of Kremniotsa , 15 June 1993, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; one male, one female, Khalkidhikí, Athos [Ágion Óros Peninsula], 2 km north-west of Megistis Lavras , ca. 30 m, 3 July 2002, M.A. Jäch leg. ( NHMW) ; four males, six females, Xanthi distr., ca. 10 km east of Stavroúpolis , 41°12.4′ N, 24°47.7′ E, ca. 360 m, stream, 25–26 April 2007, J. Hájek leg. ( NMPC) .

Measurements. Body length: 3.10–3.40 mm (mean value = 3.27 mm), width: 1.40–1.55 mm (mean 1.48 mm).

Description. Similar to nominotypical subspecies in general habitus. Usually slightly smaller; sides of elytra more curved, so pronoto-elytral angle more distinct than in nominotypical subspecies ( Figure 3D ). Punctation on pronotum and elytra coarser and deeper. Distance between punctures about that of their diameter, in particular in basal half of elytra.

Male: dorsal surface shiny. Claws of fore tarsi broadened, strongly hooked. Median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view ( Figure 2H ) more intensively tapering in distal half, apical part longer than in nominotypical subspecies, distinctly turned to right, apex very acute.

Female: microreticulation of elytra usually more distinct than in males so surface subopaque. Claws of fore legs thin, only slightly curved.

Habitat. Collected in gravel and under submerged leaves in small temporary streams.

Distribution. A subspecies which occurs in the Balkan Peninsula. Known from Albania, southern Bulgaria and Greece, including the islands of Euboea, Levkás, Samothráki and Thásos ( Figure 6 ).

Figures

Figure 2(A–L). Median lobe in lateral and ventral view of (A) Hydroporus anatolicus anatolicus; (C) H. anatolicus koksali ssp. nov.; (E) H. bodemeyeri bodemeyeri; (G) H. bodemeyeri cariaensis ssp. nov.; (H) H. bodemeyeri guignoti; (I) H. cuprescens; (K) H. kurdistanicus sp. nov. Paramere of (B) Hydroporus anatolicus anatolicus; (D) H. anatolicus koksali ssp. nov.; (F) H. bodemeyeri bodemeyeri; (J) H. cuprescens; (L) H. kurdistanicus sp. nov.

Figure 3. Average landmark configuration and body shape of (A) Hydroporus anatolicus anatolicus; (B) H. anatolicus koksali ssp. nov.; (C) H. kurdistanicus sp. nov.; (D) H. bodemeyeri guignoti; (E) H. bodemeyeri bodemeyeri; (F) H. bodemeyeri cariaensis ssp. nov.; (G) H. cuprescens.

Figure 6. Distribution of the species of the H. bodemeyeri species complex.