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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152041259" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:89CB949970C518ABC4E26DFAE92EA63E" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/89CB949970C518ABC4E26DFAE92EA63E" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="77" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Berosus_chevrolati" authority="Zaitzev, 1908" authorityName="Zaitzev" authorityYear="1908" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus chevrolati" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chevrolati">Berosus chevrolati Zaitzev, 1908</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus aculeatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeatus">Berosus aculeatus</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus aculeatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aculeatus">Berosus aculeatus</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation author="Van Tassell, ER" journalOrPublisher="Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, The Catholic University of America, Washington D. C." pageId="29" pageNumber="102" title="Taxonomy and biology of the subfamily Berosinae of North and Central America and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)." year="1966">Van Tassell 1966</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Spangler, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Resultats des Expeditions Biospeologiques Cubano-Roumaine a Cuba" pageId="29" pageNumber="102" pagination="145 - 171" volume="3" year="1981">Spangler 1981</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Hansen, M" journalOrPublisher="Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) Coleoptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup" pageId="28" pageNumber="101" title="World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 2." year="1999">Hansen 1999</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Peck, SB" journalOrPublisher="Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas" pageId="29" pageNumber="102" pagination="1 - 241" title="A checklist of the beetles of Cuba with data on distribution and bionomics (Insecta: Coleoptera)." volume="18" year="2005">Peck 2005</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Holotype: female (MNHN): "aculeatus / Ch. Cuba // this must be / Chevr. unique type of aculeatus / PJS [= P. J. Spangler] 1966".</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Additional material examined.</paragraph>
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CUBA: Santiago de Cuba: 3 exs. (dry-mounted) (NMPC): Dos Caminos, stream,
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<bibRefCitation author="Spangler, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Resultats des Expeditions Biospeologiques Cubano-Roumaines a Cuba" pageId="29" pageNumber="102" pagination="353 - 358" title="Aquatic Coleoptera, collected by the Biospeleological Expeditions to Cuba by the Academies of Science of Cuba and Romania (Gyrinidae: Dytiscidae: Hydrophilidae: Hydraenidae: Elminthidae: Psephenidae)." volume="1" year="1973">Spangler 1973</bibRefCitation>
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Zaitzev, 1908. a habitus in dorsal view b habitus in lateral view c mesoventral process in lateral view d-f aedeagus (d dorsal view e lateral view f ventral view) g abdominal ventrite 5.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Small, widely elongate species, body length 3.6-4.6 mm. Head dark, metallic; pronotum pale, with median unpaired narrow black longitudinal spot mesally, pronotal punctation not darkened; elytra pale with irregular small dark spots in posterior half of elytral intervals. Elytral apices each without subapical tooth. Mesoventral process highly laminar, square-shaped, with large anterior and posterior teeth. Abdominal ventrite 1 with median keel throughout its length. Emargination of abdominal ventrite 5 rectangular with a median teeth. Median lobe of the aedeagus with short basal projection and rounded apex in lateral view.</paragraph>
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), elytra more evenly convex (subapical area of each elytra forms a bump in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus trilobus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="trilobus">Berosus trilobus</taxonomicName>
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), shortbasal projection of the median lobe (long in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus trilobus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="trilobus">Berosus trilobus</taxonomicName>
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) and, rounded apex of the median lobe in lateral view (apex is beak-shaped in lateral view in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus trilobus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="75" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="trilobus">Berosus trilobus</taxonomicName>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="77" pageId="3" pageNumber="76" type="redescription">
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="76">Habitus as in Figs 1a, b. Body length 3.4-4.6 mm. Body short and wide, moderately convex. Head black with metallic sheen, labrum black. Antennae testaceous. Maxillary palpi testaceous with palpomere 4 brown at apex. Pronotum testaceous with a central elongate metallic spot. Scutellum black with metallic sheen. Elytra testaceous with small brown spots without discrete borders. Pro-, meso- and metafemora testaceous, basal portion of metafemora sometimes slightly darker.</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="77" start="start">Head</pageBreakToken>
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with moderately large and rounded punctures. Pronotum with punctures of the same size as on head. Scutellum with a few deeply impressed punctures slightly smaller than those on the pronotum. Elytral striae well-impressed. Interstriae with small and shallow punctures, irregular long setae on posterior half of elytra; spine-like setae absent. Elytral apices entire and rounded, of same shape in males and females. Mesoventral process highly raised, square-shaped, with hood-like anterior tooth, posterior tooth moderately large (Fig. 1c). Metaventral process wide, slightly raised, square-shaped, with large, deep glabrous rhomboid median depression; posterolateral angles raised and rounded, posteromesal projection carinate. Abdominal ventrite 1 with median carina throughout its length. Abdominal ventrite 5 with deep rectangular emargination, bearing a broad median tooth (Fig. 1g). Basal pubescence on basal 0.7 of meso- and of metafemora, the margin between pubescent and bare portions sinuate. Protarsus of male with adhesive soles on the first basal tarsomeres, first and second tarsomere distinctly thickened, third tarsomere very slightly thickened, fourth tarsomere elongate, almost as long as tarsomeres 1-3 combined. Claws moderately long, slender, arcuate.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="77">
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Male genitalia (Figs 1
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): Phallobase ca. 0.6
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total length of aedeagus. Parameres in lateral view wide basally, apically projecting into rounded apex slightly bent ventrad, bearing a row of subapical setae ventrally. Median lobe C-shaped in lateral view; basal projection short, directing apicad; apex wide and rounded in lateral view.
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<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="77" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="77">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Currently only known from Cuba.
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<bibRefCitation author="Spangler, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Resultats des Expeditions Biospeologiques Cubano-Roumaine a Cuba" pageId="29" pageNumber="102" pagination="145 - 171" volume="3" year="1981">Spangler (1981)</bibRefCitation>
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recorded this species from several localities across the island, but all new material is from two sites in Santiago de Cuba province.
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<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="77">Habitat.</paragraph>
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We collected
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus chevrolati" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chevrolati">Berosus chevrolati</taxonomicName>
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along the margins of lowland streams and in isolated pools along these streams, in both cases having clear to turbid water and abundant organic matter (Fig. 11a). This species is found at low altitudes (ranging from sea level to ca. 160 m a.s.l.) situated in the Central Valley (Valle Central).
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus chevrolati" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chevrolati">Berosus chevrolati</taxonomicName>
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is frequently associated with
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Berosus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Berosus trilobus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="77" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="trilobus">Berosus trilobus</taxonomicName>
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in those habitats.
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<bibRefCitation author="Spangler, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Resultats des Expeditions Biospeologiques Cubano-Roumaine a Cuba" pageId="29" pageNumber="102" pagination="145 - 171" volume="3" year="1981">Spangler (1981)</bibRefCitation>
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also collected the species in standing waters.
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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</document>
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