Amurodytes belovi, Fery & P.N & S, 2013

Fery, H., P. N & S, East, 2013, Amurodytes belovi nov. gen. et nov. sp. from eastern Russia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1821-1838 : 1824

Amurodytes belovi nov.sp.

T y p e l o c a l i t y: Russia, Far East, Amur Oblast, Zeya Nature Reserve ; exact coordinates not known, but approximately around 54.08N, 126.90E. The guard point named "52nd km" is within 1 km east of the road joining Zeya town and Zolotaya Gora village , 52 km from Zeya by this road ; the type specimens were collected east of the road, probably in the Bolshaya Erakingra River , which belongs to the Zeya part of the Amur basin (V. Belov, pers. comm.) .

T y p e m a t e r i a l:H o l o t y p e:, "Zeyskiy [= Zeya, from Zeya River] zapov. [zapovednik = nature reserve] / kordon 52-y km [= "52nd km" guard point] / 14.VII.1978 / Belov" [printed photographically except "14" (hw Vassili Belov)], "Oreodytes / rivalis Gyll. / det. E. Berlov, 1983" [hw Eduard Berlov, Irkutsk], " Holotype / Amurodytes belovi sp.n. / H. Fery & P.N. Petrov det. 2013" [red, printed] (ZMUM).

P a r a t y p e s:1, provided with a handwritten label, text same as in holotype (hw Pyotr Petrov); specimen originally on glue card mounted on same pin as that of holotype ( ZMUM). 1, 1, labelled as holotype, but without Berlov’s determination label ( CHF). 1, "Zeyskiy zapov. / kordon 52-y km / 15.VII.1978 / Belov" [printed photographically except "15" (hw Vassili Belov)] ; behind "Belov" also name "Kurbatov", this, however, crossed out] ( DEUM). 1, "Sev. Buryatiya [severnaya Buryatiya = northern Buryatia] / r. B. Amalat [reka Bol'shoy Amalat = Bolshoy Amalat River], verkh. [verkhov'ya = upper reaches] / 22.6.1967 Kabakov" [hw Oleg Kabakov], "Oreodytes septemtrionalis [sic!] / (Gyll.) / det. O.N. Kabakov " [hw Kabakov except for last line (printed)], "Zoological Institute / St. Petersburg / coll. Kabakov " [printed], "Oreodytes /? belovi / sp.n.?, / P. Petrov det. 2006" [hw Petrov except for last line (printed); co-ordinates estimated to ca. 54.10N 113.35E, locality situated ca. 900 km W of locus typicus] ( ZISP). N o t e s: All paratypes are provided with our red printed labels. Locality labels are transcribed here from the Russian Cyrillic text, with explanations of abbreviations, comments, and English translations given in square brackets ; slashes indicate line breaks.