Leiopleura cyanea 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 : 338

Leiopleura cyanea Zayas

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Leiopleura cyanea Zayas 1988: 44 .

Neotrachys cyanea (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 .

The one sentence original description of this species stated that the color is entirely metallic blue. However, the photograph of the holotype shows that the head and pronotum have a decidedly dark bronze or coppery coloration, contrasting with the blue elytra, similar to that of the holotype of N. cupeyali ( Fig. 5). As the holotype of N. cupeyali was collected in June 1964 from the same locality as the holotype of N. cyanea , collected in June 1966, it seems highly likely that the two specimens are conspecific.