Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 123

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244881

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687B7-A735-FFBF-39D2-F89CBBF54D56

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scientific name

Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917
status

 

Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917 View in CoL

( Fig. 26 View Figs )

Spercheus Stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917: 133 View in CoL .

Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber View in CoL - D’Orchymont, 1919: 70; Hebauer, 1997: 22; Hansen, 1999: 67, and references therein.

Material examined. – 2 specimens - Other areas - 2 ex., Kranji fish pond near Neo Tiew Road, 12 Oct.1990, coll. C. M. Yang ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Brunei, Philippines [Luzon] ( Hebauer, 1997). First record for the Malaysian Peninsula and Singapore!

Ecology. – A lentic species which occurs in shallow and exposed swamps and ponds, rich in aquatic vegetation and plant debris.

FAMILY HYDROPHILIDAE

This rather large family comprises about 2400 described species. Around 400 species in 60 genera are reported from the Oriental realm ( Hansen, 1999). Adult and larval hydrophilids have very different habits; the former are phytophagous or saprophagous, while the latter are predacious. Most members of the subfamily Sphaeridiinae are strictly terrestrial (except for the aquatic genus Coelostoma ), living in decaying vegetable matter, dung, carrion, damp soil and ant or termite nests ( Hansen, 1999). Like the Dytiscidae , the aquatic hydrophilids inhabit all kinds of freshwater habitats. Most of the aquatic species are oval to globose, smooth and glabrous, often resembling Dytiscidae , from which they differ in having short and clubbed antennae and long maxillary palps. A ventral plastron, which communicates with a small subelytral air reservoir, is also present. When the beetle rises to the surface, it breaks the surface film using its specialised antennal club, allowing communication between atmosphere and plastron (Lawrence & Britton, 1991). The plastron is held by a fine, golden setation, or hydrofuge pubescence, which covers the major part of the beetle’s venter.

SUBFAMILY HYDROPHILINAE

TRIBE BEROSINI

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Spercheidae

Genus

Spercheus

Loc

Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael 2004
2004
Loc

Spercheus stangli

Hansen, M 1999: 67
Hebauer, F 1997: 22
1997
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