Mesoceration semicarinulum Perkins, 2008

Bilton, David T., 2015, New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 3972 (4), pp. 495-520 : 515

Mesoceration semicarinulum Perkins, 2008

A species of the Northern Cape Province, from the Richtersveld to the western margins of the Hantamsberg ( Perkins 2008). I can add the following captures, all from the Kamiesberg: 19/ix/2010 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream on Witwater-Langkloof road ca. 1 km S of junction—abundant; 19/ix/2010 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream ca. 5 km W of Witwater, above Studer Pass—abundant; 17/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream below Damsland, N of Rooiberg—abundant; 17/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, seepages over rock below summit of Johannes se Berg—abundant; 17/ix/2014, Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream on Studer Pass road at Modderfontein—abundant; 18/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream at bottom of Langkloof, 700mabundant; 18/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream in Langkloof, ca. 1,000m—abundant; 18/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, stream in Langkloof, ca. 1,100m—abundant; 19/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, Kamiesberg Pass, temporary stream flowing from Sneeukop—abundant; 19/ix/2014 Northern Cape, Kamiesberg, Groen River on N7 ca. 6 km S of Garies—abundant. Specimens vary somewhat in the extent of the carina on the eighth elytral interval.