Hydrochus farsicus sp. n. from Iran and notes on other Palearctic species of the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrochidae)
Author
Hidalgo-Galiana, Amparo
Author
Jäch, Manfred A.
Author
Ribera, Ignacio
text
Zootaxa
2010
2344
61
64
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.193349
9acae37a-ea05-4431-9503-bbe7f459c2ab
1175-5326
193349
Hydrochus smaragdineus
Fairmaire, 1879
Hydrochus angustatus bicolor
Rey, 1885
syn.n.
Material studied.
Lectotype
(of
Hydrochus angustatus bicolor
Rey, 1885
), male (Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Lyon): “
Hydrochus
/ bicolor Rey [male symbol] / mus. Lyon. [red handwritten label]”; “Museon Den Haag /
Hydrochus
[male symbol] / bicolor Rey [hdw] / det. A. L. van Berge / Henegouwen 1986”; “
lectotype
. Van Berge / Henegouwen 1985 [red label, hdw]”.
Remarks.
The study of the
lectotype
of
H. angustatus bicolor
revealed that its aedeagus is identical to that of
H. smaragdineus
Fairmaire
(in the interpretation of
Valladares, 1995
), and thus it has to be considered a subjective junior synonym and not a subspecies of
Hydrochus angustatus
Germar, 1824
.