A review of the Larainae of Australia with description of seven new species and the new genus Australara (Coleoptera, Byrrhoidea, Elmidae)
Author
Barr, Cheryl B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6707-4301
Essig Museum of Entomology, 1101 Life Sciences Bldg. # 4780, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
cbarr@berkeley.edu
Author
Shepard, William D.
Essig Museum of Entomology, 1101 Life Sciences Bldg. # 4780, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
text
ZooKeys
2021
2021-11-29
1073
55
117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1073.71843
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1073.71843
1313-2970-1073-55
18D5AF2786E54D21BCC527D09FB384DA
F401EBF007E0519AB4B8EC43D0F5EFE4
Genus
Stetholus Carter & Zeck, 1929
Type species.
Stetholus elongatus
Carter & Zeck, 1929.
Diagnosis.
Body elongate, sides subparallel; antennae clavate, either compact or elongate, reaching at least to middle of pronotum; labrum with lateral brushes of long, curved setae; maxillary palpi long, prominent, enlarged apically, each with nearly half of palpomere 4 composed of a ventral, widely open, white sensory area obliquely angled from the apex to the base; pronotum with or without basal sublateral carinae; pronotal disc with a shallow to moderately deep, transverse, broadly V-shaped impression generally at anterior 1/3-1/2; elytra striate-punctate, laterally compressed at basal 1/2, apices rounded; prosternum very short anterior to procoxae; prosternal process moderately narrow, with a median longitudinal carina; apices of hind tibiae not exceeding apices of elytra; abdominal ventrites 1-2 combined shorter than 3-5 combined (Figs
34
-
42
).
Figures 34, 35.
Stetholus carinatus
sp. nov., holotype male
34
habitus, 3.7 mm long
A
dorsal
B
ventral
35
male genitalia
A
dorsal view
B
lateral view
C
ventral view.
Distribution.
Stetholus
is endemic to Australia, with species occurring in Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria (Figs
8-12
). There was a record in the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) https://www.ala.org.au/ database of a specimen from Tasmania, but the specimen was misidentified therefore the record was erroneous (S. Grove, in litt.). It has since been deleted.
Habitat and behavior.
Adults are usually found in fast or turbulent water in rocky chutes, below waterfalls and spillways, on log jams and boulders in rapids, and among root masses in the current, often in large aggregations. They fly readily when disturbed. Specimens also have been collected with light traps and flight intercept traps (A.Glaister, in litt.; G. Monteith, in litt.).
Comments.
Three of the five known species exhibit secondary sexual dimorphism with the females having the posterior 1/4 of the elytron slightly explanate lateral to stria 11. This is most pronounced in
S. longipennis
sp. nov., but is less so and somewhat variable in
S. elongatus
and
S. woronora
sp. nov. The larva of
Stetholus
was keyed and illustrated by
Glaister (1999)
.