A new classification of the tribe Hygrotini Portevin, 1929 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
Author
Fery, Hans
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Zootaxa
2017
2017-05-05
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10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.4
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Genus
Hygrotus
Stephens, 1828
Type species
:
Dytiscus inaequalis
Fabricius, 1777
: 239
, by subsequent designation of
Curtis (1835: pl. 531)
.
The genus
Hygrotus
as here defined includes 129 described species (two of them bitypic) distributed in the Nearctic (including the north of
MeXico
), Palaearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental zoogeographical regions (
Fig. 2
and
Table 1
). One Nearctic species was introduced to Hawaii (see below), which belongs to the
Pacific region
.
Diagnosis.
In the new classification
Hygrotus
is the second of two genera of the tribe
Hygrotini
. As in
Clemnius
n. gen
.
all species of the genus have two carinae in each antennal cavity (see
Figs 4–6
).
According to the two main clades in the phylogeny of
Hygrotini
and several morphological characters, the genus (which corresponds to Clade B in
Fig. 1
) is subdivided into four clades corresponding to the following four subgenera: clade B1 = subgenus
Coelambus
, clade B2 = subgenus
Hyphoporus
, clade B3 = subgenus
Hygrotus
s. str.
and clade B4 =
Leptolambus
n. subgen.