Morphology of adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of southern hemisphere genera Tormus and Afrotormus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) Author Fikáček, Martin Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: mfikacek @ gmail. com & Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic Author Minoshima, Yûsuke Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, 2 - 4 - 1 Higashida, Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 805 - 0071 Japan; e-mail: minoshima @ kmnh. jp & Systematic Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 - 8589 Japan Author Vondráček, Dominik Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic Author Gunter, Nicole Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; e-mail: Nicole. Gunter @ csiro. au Author Leschen, Richard A. B. ) text Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 2013 2013-07-15 53 1 75 126 journal article 7791 10.5281/zenodo.4503766 033078bd-ae40-4e66-beef-6e4d52d13223 0374-1036 4503766 A035EF41-039F-4DC0-8AE6-300E8BEC10E6 Afrotormus metallescens Hansen, 1999 ( Figs 18 D–E, 18J, 19B) Afrotormus metallescens Hansen, 1999a: 147 . Type locality. Republic of South Africa , Western Cape Province , Heuningnes River, 34.42°S 20.02°E . Type material examined. HOLOTYPE : ♂ ( TMSA ): ‘ S. Afr. , S. W. Cape / Heuningnes Riv. / 34.42 S20.02 E // 28.10.1983 ; E-Y: 2030 / from under stones / leg. Endrödy-Younga // HOLOTYPE / Afrotormus metallescens / M. Hansen’. PARATYPE : ( ZMUC ): same locality data, but with type label ‘ PARATYPE / Afrotormus / metallescens / M. Hansen’. Additional material examined. None. Diagnosis. Dorsal coloration brown to dark brown, with bronze metallic reflections; sides of pronotum and elytra and whole ventral portion and appendages reddish. Head and pronotum with rather distinct punctuation consisting of simple punctures; elytral punctures slightly smaller but still distinct. Male labial palpi modified, widened, palpomere 3 with large transparent disc; female labial palpi simple. Mesoventrite divided from anepisterna by distinct anapleural suture; mesoventral plate ca. 1.6× longer than wide, with weakly convex lateral margins. Hind wings not developed.Aedeagus with phallobase slightly shorter than parameres, parameres subangulate in apical fourth of outer margin, apex narrowed into a hook-like apex. Male sternite 9 wide basally, projecting as a narrow median projection mesally. Distribution. Republic of South Africa : Western Cape . Known only from the type locality.