Leiopleura cupeyali Zayas, 1988

Barman, E. H., Michat, M. C., Alarie, Y. & Wolfe, G. W., 2007, Figs. 16 – 17. 16 in A Description of the First Instar of Hoperius planatus Fall, 1927 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae: Colymbetini), with Phylogenetic Implications, The Coleopterists Bulletin 24 (3), pp. 334-338 : 337

Leiopleura cupeyali Zayas

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Leiopleura cupeyali Zayas 1988: 44 .

Neotrachys cupeyali (Zayas) . Current valid name.

Type locality: CUBA: Oriente Province , Cupeyal. The photographed specimen, of undetermined sex, is probably a holotype, but no number of specimens was given by Zayas .

Following a suggestion by Ivie (1991), Hespenheide (2006: 239) correctly placed this and the following species in the genus Neotrachys Obenberger. The one sentence original description of this species stated that the head and pronotum are golden, and the elytra metallic green, with the venter black. However, the holotype has a dark bronzy or coppery pronotum and dark bluish elytra ( Fig. 5). It is possible that the colors have gradually changed with time, but more likely the description was innacurate. The habitus illustration provided by Zayas (1988: fig. 36) is inaccurate in some details, showing antennae that are too large and a more rounded form to the elytral apices.