Pterosthetops brincki Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

Bilton, David T., 2014, New species and new records of Pterosthetops: eumadicolous water beetles of the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 3811 (4), pp. 438-462 : 454

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:99629EFB-F2F6-4DE8-AABA-D71069106912

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129829

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pterosthetops brincki Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
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Pterosthetops brincki Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 View in CoL

Described from the Langeberg and Swartberg ranges, in the central part of the Western Cape. Specimens from the former range are labelled as being collected in a trickle over cliffs. As well as additional records from these mountains, the species is newly recorded from the Outeniquaberg, a mountain range extending eastwards from the end of the Langeberg system. New records from rock faces below springs and a rock face beside a stream.

Additional records: 19/ix/2009 Western Cape, Langeberg, Tradouw Pass, wet rock face along R324 road ca. 10 km S. of Barrydale—abundant; 24/ix/2009 Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, wet rock face beside stream on R328 road 1 km N. of De Top, on north side of Swartberg Pass— 1 ♂; 24/ix/2009 Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, temporary seepage on rock face beside R328 road 2 km N. of Gamkaskloof junction ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 A)— 5 ♂, 2 ♀; 3/i/2014 Western Cape, Outeniquaberg, wet rock faces in Robinson Pass —abundant. Distribution Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydraenidae

Genus

Pterosthetops

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