Review of the genus Coelostoma of Taiwan with description of a new species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
Author
Liu, Hsing-Che
Author
Hu, Fang-Shuo
Author
Fikáček, Martin
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2020
2020-03-11
60
1
155
162
journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2020.008
1804-6487
3879304
16B1C03F-93E7-4BFF-B895-F846EA4CD029
Coelostoma
(
Lachnocoelostoma
)
phallicum
Orchymont, 1940
(
Figs 2C
,
3E
)
Coelostoma phallicum
Orchymont, 1940: 158
.
Material examined.
TAIWAN
:
TAITUNG
:
1 (
TARI
): Hsiaotianchi (
ṬXṮ
),
2.iv.2016
, B.-X. Guo leg.
YILAN
:
2 (
KMNH
): ‘Yijie (
áỡ
)ʼ [incorrect spelling, correct name of the locality is Aijie (
Ṟỡ
)], Yunshan Township [
DƜǿ
],
12–14.ix.2000
, Takashi Shimada leg.; 2,
6 ♀♀
(
NMNS
): Jiaoxi Township [
ḌṰǿ
], Tangwei Brook Park [
ȁā ặảợċă
],
24°49'41.9"N
121°46'12.4"E
,
22.iv.2018
, F. S. Hu leg., hand collecting; 5 (
HCLC
): Jiaoxi Township [
ḌṰǿ
],
24.824385°N
121.769800°E
,
2.vii.2019
, Hsing-Che Liu leg;
26 spec.
(
HCLC
): Luodong sports park (
ůǥḋḙċă
), Luodong To. [
ůǥḃ
],
24.6841°N
,
121.7517°E
,
19.i.2020
, leg. F. S. Hu (near pond).
HSINCHU
:
1 (
HCLC
): Emei Township [
ŔḎǿ
],
11.ix.2018
,Hsing-Che Liu leg;
TAIPEI
: 1,
1 ♀♀
(
NMNS
): NTU Farm [
ȒŘRḤōö
],
22.ix.2011
, Y. T. Wang (
ŦṪŽ
).
Diagnosis.
Body length
5.2–5.5 mm
, maximum body width
3.2–3.3 mm
. Body black. Labrum yellowish. Maxillary and labial palpi yellowish. Elytra densely punctate, without traces of series, sutural stria reaching basal half of elytra. Ventral face of pro- and mesofemora densely pubescent.
Fig. 2. male genitalia and front view of the head of Taiwanese
Coelostoma
species.A–F – genitals in dorsal view:A –
C
.
fallaciosum
Orchymont, 1936
; B –
C
.
vitalisi
Orchymont, 1923
; C –
C
.
phallicum
Orchymont, 1940
; D –
C
.
wui
Orchymont, 1940
; E –
C
.
bhutanicum
Jayaswal, 1972
; F –
C
.
stultum
(
Walker, 1858
)
, specimen from Japan: Iriomote Island; G–H – front view of head with labrum: G –
C
.
taiwanense
sp. nov.
, paratype; H –
C
.
fallaciosum
.
Male genitalia
(
Fig. 2C
). Aedeagus
1.5 mm
long, apical part of the median lobe trilobed apically, much shorter than parameres; gonopore semicircular; apical third of the paramere bends inwards.
Differential diagnosis.
Coelostoma phallicum
is unique among Taiwanese
Coelostoma
in having the median lobe trilobed apically.
Bionomics
(
Fig. 3E
). The specimens of
C
.
phallicum
from Yilan were found in mud with abundant
Brassica
plants and from accumulations of rotten leaves in a small, artificial brook draining the water from a hot spring hotel. They were found either submerged in water or on the border of the shore zone of the stream. The specimen from Hsinchu was collected from the surface of a wet stone near the stream. The beetles were observed active at night.
Distribution.
This species is known from
China
(
Guangdong
,
Hainan
,
Guangxi
),
Cambodia
,
Indonesia
,
Malaysia
,
Laos
and
Vietnam
(
ORCHYMONT
1940
,
HANSEN
1999
,
JIA
et al. 2014
). New record for
Taiwan
(
Fig. 4
).