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<taxonomicName LSID="40DABB49-367A-56E2-B890-9514D2704CAB" authority="Ochs, 1927" authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1927" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus longimanus subsp. cubensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subSpecies="cubensis">Dineutus longimanus cubensis Ochs, 1927</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A ♀ dorsal habitus B ♀ ventral habitus C ♂ dorsal habitus D ♂ ventral habitus. All scale bars ≈ 2 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Figures 20</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 21" captionStartId="F21" captionText="Figure 21. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A aedeagus dorsal view B aedeagus ventral view C ♂ mesotarsal claws D aedeagus lateral view. Scale bar for C ≈ 0.10 mm all others ≈ 1 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">, 21</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 55" captionStartId="F55" captionText="Figure 55. General distribution map. A Dineutus americanus B Dineutus longimanus cubensis, Dineutus longimanus jamaicensis, Dineutus longimanus longimanus, Dineutus longimanus portoricensis." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">, 55</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1927" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus (Dineutus) longimanus subsp. cubensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subGenus="Dineutus" subSpecies="cubensis">Dineutus (Dineutus) longimanus cubensis</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Ochs, G" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Zeitschrift" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="190 - 197" refId="B91" refString="Ochs, G, 1927a. Die Dineutini. 2. Tribus der Unterfamilien Enhydrinae Fam. Gyrinidae (Col). A. Aligemeiner Teil. Entomologische Zeitschrift 40: 190 - 197" title="Die Dineutini. 2. Tribus der Unterfamilien Enhydrinae Fam. Gyrinidae (Col). A. Aligemeiner Teil." volume="40" year="1927 a">Ochs 1927a</bibRefCitation>
: 192,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1791" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) longimanus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longimanus" subGenus="Rhombodineutus">Dineutus (Rhombodineutus) longimanus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon" pageId="91" pageNumber="92" pagination="124 - 127" refId="B36" refString="Guignot, F, 1950. Sur la systematique des Dineutus (Col. Gyrinidae). Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon 19: 124 - 127" title="Sur la systematique des Dineutus (Col. Gyrinidae)." volume="19" year="1950">Guignot 1950</bibRefCitation>
: 127,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1791" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus (Cyclinus) longimanus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longimanus" subGenus="Cyclinus">Dineutus (Cyclinus) longimanus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Brinck, P" journalOrPublisher="Acta Universitatis Lundensis Nova Series" pageId="91" pageNumber="92" pagination="1 - 144" refId="B8" refString="Brinck, P, 1955. A revision of the Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Ethiopian region. I. Acta Universitatis Lundensis Nova Series 51: 1 - 144" title="A revision of the Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Ethiopian region. I." volume="51" year="1955">Brinck 1955</bibRefCitation>
: 106,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1927" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus longimanus subsp. cubensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subSpecies="cubensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Peck, SB" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Cave and Karst Studies" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="156 - 166" refId="B100" refString="Peck, SB, Ruiz-Baliu, AE, Garces Gonzalez, GF, 1998. The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 60: 156 - 166" title="The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology." volume="60" year="1998">Peck et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
: 158.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Cuba, Santiago de Cuba.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="specimens examined">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">17</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="type material examined">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Type material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">None examined.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="material examined">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">CUBA:</emphasis>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
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:
</emphasis>
Sierra de Nipe, 25km S Mayari, Pinares de Mayari, 650 m, 03.vii.1990, leg. M.A. Ivie (7 ex. WIBF); Sierra de Nipe, Rio Piloto, 4.ii.1967, leg. R. Bielawski &amp; A. Riedel (1 ex. WIBF) same as previous except: 590 m, 07.vii.1990, leg. M.A. Ivie (7 ex. WIBF);
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Pinar del Rio:</emphasis>
Sierra del Rosario, Rancho Mundito, 16.vi.1959, leg. M.W. Sanderson, C59-29 (1 ex. FSCA); Sierra del Rosario, ca. 15km S CincoPesos Rangel, 420 m, 29.vi.1990, leg. M.A. Ivie, (1 ex. WIBF).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Male (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A ♀ dorsal habitus B ♀ ventral habitus C ♂ dorsal habitus D ♂ ventral habitus. All scale bars ≈ 2 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">20C-D</figureCitation>
). Size: 11.4-12.9 mm. Body form regularly elongate oval; elytral apices spinose, with sutural angle produce to a spine, and a second parasutural spine, with thorn-like serrations and irregularities present apically and apicolaterally, apicolateral sinuation mostly absent, elytra with reticulation strong laterally and apically, producing a bronzy appearance, medial disc with reticulation more weakly impressed and composed of smaller cells accompanied by very shallowly impressed punctation, striae mostly effaced by reticulation, if evident at all faintly apparent medially on disc, lateral marginal depression of elytra absent; profemora with very small sub-apicoventral tooth; protibiae club-shaped; mesotarsal claws (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 21" captionStartId="F21" captionText="Figure 21. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A aedeagus dorsal view B aedeagus ventral view C ♂ mesotarsal claws D aedeagus lateral view. Scale bar for C ≈ 0.10 mm all others ≈ 1 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">21C</figureCitation>
) with ventral margin regularly rounded and evenly narrowed apically; metacoxae with numerous shallow punctures present over most their ventral face; venter lighter in color: reddish brown to reddish orange. Aedeagus (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 21" captionStartId="F21" captionText="Figure 21. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A aedeagus dorsal view B aedeagus ventral view C ♂ mesotarsal claws D aedeagus lateral view. Scale bar for C ≈ 0.10 mm all others ≈ 1 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">21A, B, D</figureCitation>
) with median lobe in dorsal view shorter than parameres, nearly parallel sided, slightly wider basally and shallowly narrowed apicad, in apical 1/4 shallowly narrowed towards apex, apex regularly rounded, dorsally without narrow carina, ventrally sperm-groove narrow and parallel sided for most its length, apically briefly widened, in lateral view median lobe with dorsal margin shallowly sinuate in apical 1/3, apex broadly rounded; parameres in dorsal view with lateral margins not laterally expanded, parallel sided for most their length, and apically narrowly rounded.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Female (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Dineutus longimanus cubensis. A ♀ dorsal habitus B ♀ ventral habitus C ♂ dorsal habitus D ♂ ventral habitus. All scale bars ≈ 2 mm." pageId="47" pageNumber="48">20A-B</figureCitation>
). Size: 10.8-12.4 mm. Body form regularly elongate oval; elytral apices spinose, with sutural angle produce to a spine, and a second parasutural spine, with thorn-like serrations and irregularities present apically and apicolaterally, apicolateral sinuation mostly absent, elytra with reticulation strong laterally and apically, producing a bronzy appearance, medial disc with reticulation more weakly impressed and composed of smaller cells accompanied by very shallowly impressed punctation, striae mostly effaced by reticulation, if evident at all located medially on disc, lateral marginal depression of elytra absent; profemora without sub-apicoventral tooth; protibiae club-shaped; metacoxae with numerous shallow punctures present over most their ventral face; venter lighter in color: reddish brown to reddish orange.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Figure 20.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">A</emphasis>
♀ dorsal habitus
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">B</emphasis>
♀ ventral habitus
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">C</emphasis>
♂ dorsal habitus
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">D</emphasis>
♂ ventral habitus. All scale bars ≈ 2 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption pageId="47" pageNumber="48" start="Figure 21" startId="F21">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Figure 21.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">A</emphasis>
aedeagus dorsal view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">B</emphasis>
aedeagus ventral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">C</emphasis>
♂ mesotarsal claws
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">D</emphasis>
aedeagus lateral view. Scale bar for
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">C</emphasis>
≈ 0.10 mm all others ≈ 1 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is unique among the other subspecies of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in being smaller in size (10.8-12.9 mm) and having the metacoxae with numerous shallow punctures present and covering most of their surface. The subspecies most similar to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1927" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus longimanus subsp. cubensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subSpecies="cubensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1938" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus longimanus subsp. jamaicensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subSpecies="jamaicensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus jamaicensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and can primarily be distinguished by the differences in dorsal punctation and the punctures of the metacoxae as provided by the indentification key.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Distribution</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
(Fig.
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).
</emphasis>
Cuba (
<bibRefCitation author="Leng, CW" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" pageId="93" pageNumber="94" pagination="191 - 220" refId="B66" refString="Leng, CW, Mutchler, AJ, 1914a. Article V. - Suppliment to preliminary list of the Coleoptera of the West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37: 191 - 220" title="Article V. - Suppliment to preliminary list of the Coleoptera of the West Indies." volume="37" year="1914 a">Leng and Mutchler 1914a</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Ochs, G" journalOrPublisher="American Museum Novitates" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="1 - 8" refId="B86" refString="Ochs, G, 1924. On the West Indian Gyrinidae and a new species of Gyretes from northern Brazil. American Museum Novitates 125: 1 - 8" title="On the West Indian Gyrinidae and a new species of Gyretes from northern Brazil." volume="125" year="1924">Ochs 1924</bibRefCitation>
, 1926)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Lotic, according to
<bibRefCitation author="Peck, SB" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Cave and Karst Studies" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="156 - 166" refId="B100" refString="Peck, SB, Ruiz-Baliu, AE, Garces Gonzalez, GF, 1998. The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 60: 156 - 166" title="The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology." volume="60" year="1998">Peck et al. (1998)</bibRefCitation>
this subspecies occurs in streams through out Cuba and is an accidental cave inhabitant. Cave records for this species include Cueva
<normalizedToken originalValue="Jíbara">Jibara</normalizedToken>
8, Santiago de Cuba Province and Cueva Caja de Aqua, Saneti Spiritus Province (
<bibRefCitation author="Peck, SB" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Cave and Karst Studies" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="156 - 166" refId="B100" refString="Peck, SB, Ruiz-Baliu, AE, Garces Gonzalez, GF, 1998. The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 60: 156 - 166" title="The cave-inhabiting beetles of Cuba (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity, distribution, and ecology." volume="60" year="1998">Peck et al. 1998</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="47" pageNumber="48" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
Information on the subspecies aside from its taxonomy has been scarce. Given what is currently known it appears that
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
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is only known from Cuba.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="47" pageNumber="48">
It is worth noting that the date of the description of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is often given as 1926 (
<bibRefCitation author="Ochs, G" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the Carnegie Museum" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="123 - 134" refId="B93" refString="Ochs, G, 1929. VII. Notes upon some Gyrinidae in the Carnegie Museum with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 19: 123 - 134" title="VII. Notes upon some Gyrinidae in the Carnegie Museum with descriptions of new species." volume="19" year="1929">Ochs 1929</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Ochs, G" journalOrPublisher="Psyche" pageId="95" pageNumber="96" pagination="85 - 93" publicationUrl="10.1155/1938/37837" refId="B95" refString="Ochs, G, 1938. Additional remarks on West Indian Gyrinidae. Psyche 45: 85 - 93, DOI: 10.1155/1938/37837" title="Additional remarks on West Indian Gyrinidae." url="10.1155/1938/37837" volume="45" year="1938">1938</bibRefCitation>
) as the name was used earlier by Ochs (1926-1927). However, according to Article 12.1 of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">The Code</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation author="ICZN" journalOrPublisher="International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London" pageId="92" pageNumber="93" refId="B48" refString="ICZN, 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth Edition, adopted by the International Union of Biological Sciences. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London" title="International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth Edition, adopted by the International Union of Biological Sciences" year="1999">ICZN 1999</bibRefCitation>
) in order for the nomen to be available it must be accompanied by a description or definition and in 1926 the name was simply used with an asterix making it a
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">nomen nudum</emphasis>
at that time. The description of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was not included until the final part of the work published in 1927 on page 192 (
<bibRefCitation author="Ochs, G" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Zeitschrift" pageId="94" pageNumber="95" pagination="190 - 197" refId="B91" refString="Ochs, G, 1927a. Die Dineutini. 2. Tribus der Unterfamilien Enhydrinae Fam. Gyrinidae (Col). A. Aligemeiner Teil. Entomologische Zeitschrift 40: 190 - 197" title="Die Dineutini. 2. Tribus der Unterfamilien Enhydrinae Fam. Gyrinidae (Col). A. Aligemeiner Teil." volume="40" year="1927 a">Ochs 1927a</bibRefCitation>
). Thus the true date for
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ochs" authorityYear="1927" class="Insecta" family="Gyrinidae" genus="Dineutus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dineutus longimanus subsp. cubensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="47" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="longimanus" subSpecies="cubensis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">Dineutus longimanus cubensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
must be 1927 as that is when the nomen satisfied the criteria of
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="48">The Code</emphasis>
for availability.
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