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 artvinensis
sp. n.
(
Figs 3
,
13
)
Type
locality.
Turkey
, Artvin province, Şavşat, Karagöl, ca.
41.24N
42.37E
(locality
7 in
Fig. 13
).
Holotype
.
3, "
TR
–Artvin, Şavşat, Karagöl,
17.9.2001
, Leg.
Ö
. Köksal Erman"; "
Holotype
,
Hydroporus artvinensis
sp. n.
, H. Fery &
Ö
.K. Erman det. 2009" [red, printed] (
NMW
).
Paratype
.
1 Ƥ, same label data as the
holotype
, but a red
paratype
label (
CHF
).
Differential diagnosis.
Very similar to
H. cagrankaya
sp. n.
, but upper side black except on vertex of head. Punctation of elytra slightly coarser. Ventral side with gula and genae black; prosternal process blackish. Legs uniformly rather dark brownish, thus darkening of femora indistinct. Antennal segments also uniformly darker, apical darkening indistinct. Contrast of brownish legs and antenna to rest of surface decidedly weaker than in
H. toledoi
sp. n.
Males.
Median lobe of aedeagus in ventral view weakly tapering to apex, tip broadly rounded (
Fig. 3
).
Females.
See remarks under
H. cagrankaya
sp. n.
Measurements.
TL: male
holotype
:
3.3 mm
, MW:
1.65 mm
, TL/MW: 2.0; female
paratype
: TL:
3.4 mm
, MW:
1.75 mm
; TL/MW: 1.94, IO/MP: 0.46.
Distribution.
So far known only from the locus typicus Karagöl near Şavşat in the Artvin province, north-eastern
Turkey
(locality
7 in
Fig. 13
).
Derivatio nominis.
The species is named after the Artvin province in north-eastern
Turkey
, where the new species has been found.