Mesoceration rivulare Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

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 rivulare Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

A widespread Cape species, with most records in the north-south trending mountains of the Western Cape Province ( Perkins 2008). I can add the following records: 20/ix/2010 Western Cape, Middleberg, margins of ditch on sand beside R303 ca. 5 km N of Kunje— 1 ♂, 1 ♀; 23/ix/2011 Western Cape, Cederberg, seepages over exposed rock, 1,200 m, below Wolfberg Arch, beside Matjiesrivier-Wupperthal road— 1♂; 23/ix/2014 Western Cape, Cederberg, Breëwaterkloof stream ca. 2 km SE of Uitkyk Pass, 1,050m ( Fig. 5 C)—abundant; 9/ii/2015 Western Cape, Kogelberg, stream in Fairly Glen nr. Betty’s Bay—abundant.

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FIGURE 5. Habitats of Mesoceration species in South Africa. A) KwaZulu-Natal, uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park, Injisuthi, stream in Afromontane forest remnant below Van Heyningen’s Pass— M. caniplenum sp. nov., beetles collected from the wet rockface on the right hand side of the stream; B) Western Cape, Matsikammaberg, stream 1 km NW of Sewefontein farm— M. foggoi sp. nov., M. umbrosum; C) Western Cape, Cederberg, Breëwaterkloof stream, ca. 2 km SE of Uitkyk Pass, 1,050 m— M. hirsutum sp. nov., M. dissonum, M. granulovestum, M. jucundum, M. languidum, M. periscopum, M. piceum, M. repandum, M. rivulare; D) Western Cape, Franschhoek Pass, wet rock faces beside stream crossing R 45 road, 500 m— M. rugulosum sp. nov. Photos D. T. Bilton.