Suphisellus varians ( Sharp, 1882 )

Scheers, Kevin & Thomaes, Arno, 2014, A review of the Burrowing Water Beetles of Belize with a key to the species (Coleoptera: Noteridae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 51, pp. 1-17 : 1-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272744

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Suphisellus varians ( Sharp, 1882 )
status

 

Suphisellus varians ( Sharp, 1882) View in CoL

( Figs 1H View Fig , 2G View Fig , 3H View Fig )

= Canthydrus varians Sharp, 1882 View in CoL

TYPE LOCALITY. Guatemala, Escuintla district, Paso Antonio .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. no material examined

Published records from Belize: Cayo District ( YOUNG, 1979)

DIAGNOSIS. TL = 2.3–2.6 mm; head and pronotum yellowish brown, pronotum with a darker area near anterior margin; elytra dark brown to piceous with a yellowish elongate humeral stripe, a long elongate mark on the disc and another one behind the middle near the suture ( Fig. 1H View Fig ); male genitalia with apex of aedeagus narrowed ( Fig. 2G View Fig ). Externally similar to S. neglectus but with the yellow markings forming stripes and being more prominent and the differences in the male genitalia.

DISTRIBUTION. (NT) Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua.

HABITAT. This species was not encountered during our field survey and its habitat preferences are unknown.

NOTE. Although we did not study the specimen mentioned by YOUNG (1979), we are confident that the identification by F.N. Young is correct.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Noteridae

Genus

Suphisellus

Loc

Suphisellus varians ( Sharp, 1882 )

Scheers, Kevin & Thomaes, Arno 2014
2014
Loc

Canthydrus varians

Sharp 1882
1882
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