Five new species of the longulus - group of Hydroporus Clairville, 1806 from north-eastern Turkey (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
Author
Fery, Hans
Author
Erman, Ömer Köksal
text
Zootaxa
2009
2033
1
12
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186322
287e35b6-1422-48a8-9468-5ff7e7ccfcd6
1175-5326
186322
Hydroporus toledoi
sp. n.
(
Figs 4
,
13
)
Type
locality.
Turkey
, Rize province, SE Çamlihemsin, ca.
40.94N
41.24E
, altitude
1600–1650 m
(locality
6 in
Fig. 13
).
Holotype
.
3, "
Turkey
–Rize, Çamlihemsin,
12.VIII.1992
, l. Toledo. M.", "Small streams on road Ayder–Libler Gölü, m 1600–1650", "
Holotype
,
Hydroporus toledoi
sp. n.
, H. Fery &
Ö
.K. Erman det. 2009" [red, printed] (
NMW
).
Paratypes
.
1 Ƥ, same label data as the
holotype
, but a red
paratype
label (CMT).
Notes.
The Libler Gölü [= Lake Libler] is situated in the Kaçkar mountain range at an altitude of
2753 m
, SE Çamlıhemşin, ca.
40.94N
41.24E
, E Ayder (or Ayder Kablıca), ca.
40.95N
41.11E
.
Differential diagnosis.
Upper side only brownish on vertex of head, anterior margin of pronotum, and posterior part of pronotal beading, rest black. Surface with reticulation more impressed, and thus with a duller appearance, than in
H. cargrankaya
sp. n.
Ventral side, gula and genae black; prosternal process dark brownish. Femora only slightly darkened. Antennomeres not darkened distally, except weakly darkened eleventh. Legs and antennae lighter brownish, as in
H. cagrankaya
sp. n.
; contrast to black surface more distinct.
Males.
Median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view strongly converging apically, apex very shortly rounded (
Fig. 4
); apex with tip rather pointed in lateral view.
Females.
See remarks under
H. cagrankaya
sp. n.
Measurements.
TL:
3.3–3.4 mm
, MW:
1.55–1.6 mm
; TL/MW: 2.13: IO/MP: 0.46–0.48.
Distribution.
So far known only from the locus typicus near Çamlihemsin in the Rize province, northeastern
Turkey
(locality
6 in
Fig. 13
).
Derivatio nominis.
The species is named after our colleague and friend M. Toledo (Parma,
Italy
) who kindly has submitted his material (noun in the genitive case).