New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
Author
Bilton, David T.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3972
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3972.4.3
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1175-5326
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Mesoceration reticulatum
Perkins, 2008
Widely distributed west-east in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. I can add the following records, including the first from the Swartberg range:
23/ix/2008
Eastern Cape, Garden Route National Park, Storm River Mouth, afrotemperate forest, second stream on E side of entrance—
1 ♂
, 1♀;
1/i/2014
Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road (
Fig. 6
C)—
1 ♂
. The Swartberg specimen is more strongly sculptured than specimens I have seen from elsewhere in the range, as well as having a slightly more robust apical tooth on the main piece of the aedeagus.