Berosus truncatipennis Castelnau, 1840

Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Liza M., García-Hernández, Andrea L. & Clarkson, Bruno, 2017, First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindío Department, Colombia, Check List 13 (5), pp. 605-620 : 612

Berosus truncatipennis Castelnau, 1840

( Figs 11, 34, 35)

Berosus truncatipennis Castelnau 1840: 56 .

Berosus (Enoplurus) truncatipennis Castelnau — Zaitzev 1908: 357. Berosus truncatipennis Castelnau — Oliva 1989: 184.

Diagnosis. Body 5.60–6.50 mm long. Body elongate in shape. Dorsal coloration pale brown; pronotum darker on medial portion, with a pale brown medial line, suboval in shape. Prosternum not carinate. Mesoventral process laminar, slender, convex anteriorly, with acute tooth-like projection on anterior portion and concave on posterior margin in lateral view. Last abdominal ventrite deeply notched. Parameres wide, acuminate at apex, with long ventral setae on apical portion, membranous inner appendices present; median lobe slender, cylindrical, shorter than half of the parameres length, apices slightly bifid.

Geographic distribution. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela. First record from Quindío Department and from Colombia.

Material examined. Colombia, Quindío Department, La Tebaida Municipality, Pizamal neighborhood, 04°24ʹ 57.8ʺ N, 075°50ʹ49.9ʺ W, 1064 m a.m.s.l., 2015-I-28, L.M. González coll., CIUQ 10430– CIUQ 10442 (119 males, 110 females).

Remarks. Specimens were collected in marshes on muddy substrate and on submerged vegetation; in ponds on muddy/sandy, muddy/stony and muddy/leaf substrates.