Aquatic Coleoptera of North Oman, with description of new species of Hydraenidae and Hydrophilidae
Author
Ribera, Ignacio
Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain;
Author
Hernando, Carles
P. O. box 118, E- 08911 Badalona, Catalonia, Spain; e-mail: leptotyphlus @ gmail. com
Author
Cieslak, Alexandra
Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain;
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2019
2019-06-24
59
1
253
272
journal article
8140
10.2478/aemnp-2019-0021
726682f3-9eac-4961-ac4d-d8b8679e8211
1804-6487
4488950
ABBA2B4F-8B60-41E2-B80B-45861F974B23
Thysanarthria wadicola
Fikáček & Liu, 2019
Published records.
HEBAUER (1997
,
2001
, as
T. sulcata
(Chiesa, 1967))
;
FIKÁČEK & LIU (2019)
.
Material examined.
Loc. 8:
3 ♀♀
(
paratypes
,
CCHB
,
IBEB
),
1 spec.
(
paratype
,
SEMC
,corresponding to voucher SLE0127 in
SHORT & FIKÁČEK 2013
); Loc. 9:
1 ♀
(
paratype
,
IBEB
).
Notes.
The species was recorded from
Oman
by
HEBAUER (1997
,
2001
) as
T. sulcata
, and from the
UAE
and
Iran
by
FIKÁČEK et al. (2010)
with some doubts on its identity. A recent revision of the genus has shown that
T. sulcata
is a synonym of
T. championi
(Knisch, 1924)
, widespread in central and south Asia (
FIKÁČEK & LIU 2019
). The Arabian material corresponds to a species newly described by
FIKÁČEK & LIU (2019)
,
T. wadicola
. Specimens were found in the gravelly shores of wadis, in a microhabitat similar to that of some species of the related genus
Chaetharthria.
Enochrinae