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Hydrodessus angularis Young 1970

Description

Hydrodessus angularis Young, 1970

Material examined. French Guiana: Régina (4º18’N 052º08’W); 22.xi.2007; leg. D. Lohez (INPA, 10).

Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas), French Guiana (Régina *, Roura) (Makhan 2015), Guyana (Mazaruni-Potaro District), Suriname (Sipaliwini District) and Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolivar) (Miller 2016) (Fig. 16).

Habitat. Specimens have been collected from a river margin, in a large sandy creek, in a muddy oxbow pond, in detrital pools by a forest stream, and from lights at night. The species appears to be mainly associated with margins of forest rivers (Miller 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Benetti, Cesar J., Michat, Mariano C. & Hamada, Neusa, 2020, Hydrodessus ducke sp. n. and new records of other species of the genus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini), pp. 47-60 in Zootaxa 4743 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3687626

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INPA
Event date
2007-11-22
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Hydrodessus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Young
Species
angularis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2007-11-22
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrodessus angularis Young, 1970 sec. Benetti, Michat & Hamada, 2020

References

  • Young, F. N. (1970) Two new species of Hydrodessus from Suriname, with a key to the known species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and Other Guyanas, 12 (49), 152 - 158.
  • Makhan, D. (2015) Hydrodessus aschnakiranae sp. nov., Hydrodessus lohezi sp. nov. and four new records of water beetles from French Guiana (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Calodema, 360, 1 - 10.
  • Miller, K. B. (2016) Revision of the Neotropical diving beetle genus Hydrodessus J. Balfour-Browne, 1953 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Bidessini). ZooKeys, 580, 45 - 124. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 580.8153