Peltochares

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

Hansen, 1991
Diversity
8 species

Peltochares is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae represented by eight described species. [1] It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms. [1]

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Taxonomy

The genus Peltochares was described for the first time by Maurice Auguste Régimbart in 1907 [2] for a single, large, and morphologically unusual species from Gabon (Peltochares conspicuus). [3]

Thanks to the result of a molecular-based phylogenetic analysis, [4] along with dissections of the male genitalia, several species formerly placed in the genus Helochares were confirmed to belong in the same genus as that large and morphologically unusual species. [1]

Description

Medium-sized to relatively large beetles (6–14 mm), weakly to moderately convex in lateral view, dark brown in coloration. A diagnosis of the genus as currently circumscribed was presented by Girón and Short. [1]

Species

  1. Peltochares atropiceus(Régimbart, 1903) [5]
  2. Peltochares ciniensis(Hebauer, Hendrich, and Balke, 1999) [6]
  3. Peltochares conspicuusRégimbart, 1907 [2]
  4. Peltochares discus(Hebauer, Hendrich, and Balke, 1999) [6]
  5. Peltochares foveicollis(Montrouzier, 1860) [7]
  6. Peltochares longipalpis(Murray, 1859) [8]
  7. Peltochares papuensis(Hebauer, 1995) [9]
  8. Peltochares taprobanicus(Sharp, 1890) [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 1 2 Régimbart, M. A. (1907). "Hydrophilides provenant du Voyage de M. L. Fea dans l'Afrique Occidentale". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 3: 46–62.
  3. ↑ Hansen, M. (1991). "The hydrophiloid beetles. Phylogeny, classification and a revision of the genera (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)". Biologiske Skrifter. 40: 1–367.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Régimbart, M. (1903). "Contribution a la faune Indo-Chinoise. 19e mémoire". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 72: 52–64.
  6. 1 2 Hebauer, F.; Hendrich, L.; Balke, M. (1999). "A contribution to the knowledge of the water beetle fauna (Col. Hydradephaga, Hydrophiloidea and Staphylinoidea) of a tropical freshwater lake: Tasek Cini, Pahang, West Malaysia". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 47: 333–348.
  7. ↑ Montrouzier, P. (1860). "Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles de Pins, Art, Lifu, etc". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 3: 229–308.
  8. ↑ Murray, A. (1859). "List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (20): 116–123, 352–358. doi:10.1080/00222935908697095.
  9. ↑ Hebauer, F. (1995). "Neues zu den Acidocerina Hansen (Helocharae d'Orchymont) der indomalaiischen Region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)". Acta Coleopterologica. 11 (3): 3–14.
  10. ↑ Sharp, David (1890). "IX. On some aquatic Coleoptera from Ceylon". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 38 (2): 339–359. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1890.tb03026.x. ISSN   1365-2311.
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