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
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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 S
–
20.02 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.