Sinodessus nom. nov., a new generic name for the subterranean diving beetle Sinoporus tianmingyii Zhao & Jia, 2021 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
Author
Jiang, Zhuo-Yin
0000-0001-6825-4283
Department of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
Author
Jia, Feng-Long
0000-0003-2391-5038
Department of Entomology, College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
lssjfl@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-02-22
5415
3
499
500
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.10
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.10
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Genus
Sinodessus
Jiang & Jia
,
nom. nov.
(
Fig. 1
)
Sinoporus
Zhao & Jia, 2021: 1047
(
type
species
Sinoporus tianmingyii
Zhao & Jia, 2021
), nec †
Sinoporus
Prokin & Ren, 2010:
532 (
type
species †
Sinoporus lineatus
Prokin & Ren, 2010
).
FIGURE 1.
Sinodessus
tianmingyii
(
Zhao & Jia, 2021
)
(holotype ♀). (A) habitus in dorsal view; (B) labels. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.
Type
species.
Sinoporus tianmingyii
Zhao & Jia, 2021: 1048
, by present designation.
Etymology.
The generic name is a combination of “
Sino
-” from Latin “
Sinae
” (
China
) and “-
dessus
” from
Bidessus
(
type
genus of the tribe
Bidessini
). The gender of the name is masculine.