First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindío Department, Colombia
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Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Liza M.
Author
García-Hernández, Andrea L.
Author
Clarkson, Bruno
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Enochrus
(
Methydrus
)
sharpi
Gundersen, 1977
(
Figs 9
,
32
)
Enochrus
(
Methydrus
)
sharpi
Gundersen 1977: 262
.
Diagnosis.
Body 3.00–
4.20 mm
long. Head black, with triangular light brown area in front of eyes; pronotum and elytra light brown. Prosternum not carinate, completely pubescent. Mesoventral process rectangular, with a small tooth-like projection pointed posteriad. Last abdominal ventrite shallowly notched. Parameres longer than phallobase, laterally convex; median lobe acute, triangular, with corona subapical (on apical third); phallobase as long as parameres, narrowing at distal half.
Geographic distribution.
Mexico
and
Puerto Rico
. First record from
Quindío Department
and from
Colombia
.
Material examined.
Colombia
,
Quindío Department
,
Montenegro
Municipality, El Gigante neighborhood,
04°33ʹ55.2ʺ N
,
075°48ʹ54.4ʺ W
,
1060 m
a.m.s.l.,
2007- VIII-30
, A.L García coll.,
CIUQ
13275 (
1 male
,
2 females
). La Tebaida Municipality, Pizamal neighborhood,
04°25ʹ24.0ʺ N
,
075°51ʹ36.0ʺ W
,
1140 m
a.m.s.l.,
2007-X-03
, A.L García coll.,
CIUQ
13276 (
1 male
,
1 female
). Salento Municipality, Boquia neighborhood,
04°38ʹ46.1ʺ N
,
075°34ʹ52.5ʺ W
,
2200 m
a.m.s.l.,
2007-IX-28
, A.L García coll.,
CIUQ
13277 (
2 males
,
3 females
).
Remarks.
Specimens were collected in ponds on grass with muddy substrates.