The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) fauna of Thailand: Key to tribes and genera, with new records and keys to species of Dineutini and Gyrinini
Author
Suksai, Benjamart
0000-0002-2472-6100
benjamartbenjamart@gmail.com
Author
Gustafson, Grey T.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA. & Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011, USA.
Author
Sites, Robert W.
0000-0002-3895-813X
Enns Entomology Museum, Division of Plant Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA. SitesR @ missouri. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3895 - 813 X
Author
Sangpradub, Narumon
Applied Taxonomic Research Center, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
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Zootaxa
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2021-11-22
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Gyrinus sericeolimbatus
Régimbart, 1883
(
Figs. 1A
,
3A–B
)
Material examined.
INDONESIA
:
South Sulawesi Province
:
Gowa Distr.
,
6 km
E Malino
,
Gn. Bawakareng Area
, border of gardens and mixed forest nr
Lembanna
camp,
5°15.4'S
119°54.5'E
,
1520 m
a.s.l.
,
11–13.II.2015
, leg.
J. Hájek
&
J. Sumpich
,
1 female
(
GTGC
)
.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
:
Guadalcanal
:
ca.
3.5 km
SE of
Barana
vill.
9°29.8'S
159°59.5'E
,
190 m
a.s.l.
,
24.XI–14.XII.2013
, leg.
J. Hájek
,
1 female
(
GTGC
)
.
Diagnosis.
Male: Aedeagus (after
Svensson 1991
;
Mazzoldi 2010
) with median lobe slightly shorter than parameres, strongly attenuate in apical 1/2, apex bifid, lateral margin of parameres weakly curved, apex rounded (
Fig. 3A
).
Female (
Fig. 1A
): Size:
4.5 mm
. Body form oval, strongly convex in lateral view; pronotum and elytral margins darkly colored, pronotum with median transverse depression, dorsal surface fairly evenly covered with microreticulation consisting of polyhedric meshes; pronotum and elytra laterally with bronzy-metallic sheen; striae I–XI evident with distinct, widely spaced punctures, all elytral striae non-sulcate; all intervals similarly convex; elytral apex truncate, without border, epipleural angle indistinct; metanepisternal ostiole small. Gonocoxae as in
Fig. 3B
.
Differential diagnosis.
The species is easily distinguished from all other
Gyrinus
known from Southeast Asia by its microreticulate dorsal surface and the lateral sides of pronotum and elytra having a distinct bronzy-metallic sheen.
Distribution.
This species is known from the Malay Peninsula, throughout
Indonesia
, Luzon of the
Philippines
, New
Guinea
and the
Bismarck Archipelago
(
Ochs 1927
,
1930
,
1955
;
Brinck 1976
;
Svensson 1991
;
Freitag
et al.
2016
), and possibly also from
Sri Lanka
(
Svensson 1991
).
Habitat.
Gyrinus sericeolimbatus
occurs in a wide variety of habitats from large lakes to streams at both low and high elevation (
Svensson 1991
).
Discussion
. The first report of a species of
Gyrinus
in
Thailand
was of
G. sericeolimbatus
(
Ochs 1927
,
1930
) found in a stream at Khao Luang National Park,
Nakhon Si Thammarat Province
at an elevation of about
609 m
a.s.l. For this study, a large number of aquatic insects were collected intensively at the
Nakhon Si Thammarat
Mountain Range, but
G. sericeolimbatus
was not found. However, we did not collect within Khao Luang National Park where
G. sericeolimbatus
has been reported. Therefore, this species may occur at only a few localities within the
Nakhon Si Thammarat
Mountain Range. More generally,
G. sericeolimbatus
exhibits substantial variation in both habitat and morphology across its wide geographic distribution with a couple of closely related species in New
Guinea
(i.e.,
G. toxopeusi
Ochs 1955
and
G. brincki
Svennson 1991
), and one subspecies (
G. s. wegneri
Ochs, 1959
) in Timor. These taxa were distinguished from
G. s.
sericeolimbatus
based on variation in dorsal microreticulation, extent of the brassy lateral sheen of the elytra, dorsal convexity, and width of the male protarsus (
Ochs 1955
,
1959
;
Svensson 1991
). The specimens of
G. sericeolimbatus
that we examined had a fairly complete covering of microreticulation consisting of polyhedric meshes, which would qualify as a four on the reticulation index established by
Svensson 1991
. Sampling for phylogenetic analysis of this highly variable and widely distributed species complex across its range would be beneficial for both phylogeographic and species delimitation purposes.