Colossochares

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Colossochares
Colossochares.jpg
Dorsal view of Colossochares ellipticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Hydrophilidae
Subfamily:
Acidocerinae
Genus:
Colossochares

Hansen, 1991
Diversity
2 species

Colossochares is an Afrotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by two described species. [1]

Contents

Taxonomy

The genus Colossochares was created in 2021 to group two species of Afrotropical water scavenger beetles in the subfamily Acidocerinae that were formerly placed in the genus Helochares . [1]

Evidence for separating these species from Helochares and constituting a new genus was provided by molecular data. [2]

Description

Relatively large beetles (8.5–14.0 mm), dark brown in coloration, very convex in lateral view. A diagnosis of the genus was presented by Girón and Short. [1]

Species

  1. Colossochares ellipticus(d'Orchymont, 1933) [3]
  2. Colossochares satoi(Hebauer, 2003) [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2021-06-18). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   8233300 . PMID   34228772.
  2. ↑ Short, Andrew Edward Z.; Girón, Jennifer C.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A. (2021). "Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America". Systematic Entomology. 46 (2): 380–395. doi:10.1111/syen.12467. ISSN   1365-3113. S2CID   232264478.
  3. ↑ d'Orchymont, A. (1933). "Contribution à l'étude des Palpicornia VIII". Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 73: 271–314, pl. 5.
  4. ↑ Hebauer, F. (2003). "A new species of the genus Helochares (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Africa". Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology. 6: 129–132.


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