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Novochares chaquensis (
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<figureCitation id="5D272E25CA8353773B36FC409F3B5BEE" captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Aedeagi of the Novochares sallaei species group A-E N. chaquensis F N. garciai G-I N. dicranospathus J-L N. atratus M-R N. sallaei A-C Argentina D Costa Rica E Trinidad M-P Guatemala Q, R Mexico A, D-G, J, M, Q dorsal view B, H, K, N, R ventral view C, I, L, O lateral view P oblique view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/881187" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figs 20A-E</figureCitation>
<figureCitation id="A1EECBE3D43A7AED538B429A5EF12A0E" captionStart="Figure 22" captionStartId="F22" captionText="Figure 22. Distribution of Novochares sallaei species group A N. cochlearis (red: circles, examined specimens; squares, literature / unconfirmed records), N. dicranospathus (yellow), N. pastinum (blue) B N. atratus (red: circles, examined specimens; squares, literature / unconfirmed records), N. clavieri (yellow), N. bisinuatus (blue), N. garciai (green) C N. chaquensis (red: circles, examined specimens; squares, literature / unconfirmed records), N. pichilingue (yellow) D N. fernandezae (red), N. tridentis (yellow), N. quadrispinus (blue), N. unguis (green)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142.figure22" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/881189" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 22C</figureCitation>
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, 1982b: 87; 
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1989
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: 148 [in key].
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<taxonomicName id="B8D1BA060B90416112DA699E3023AB9F" authorityName="Short" authorityYear="2005" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Helochares" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Helochares carmona" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="carmona">Helochares (s. str.) carmona</taxonomicName>
Short, 2005: 215; syn. nov.
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(Short, 2005: 215); 
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: 204.
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<taxonomicName id="66DEEBDB7327CDFD1FD820117D4EC96C" baseAuthorityName="Fernandez" baseAuthorityYear="1982" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Novochares" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Novochares chaquensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chaquensis">Novochares chaquensis</taxonomicName>
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, 1982
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: Holotype male from Argentina (Chaco: San Bernardo) deposited in MLP (not seen).
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Short, 2005: 
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(2 exs.): Costa Rica: Guanacaste Province
</emphasis>
: nr. Carmona, laguna de Cocodrilo, 16.i.2003, leg. Short, Roughley, &amp; Porras, HG-vapor light (2, SEMC).
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(
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). 
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: 
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, 
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, 
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light (3, FMNH)
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. 
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: 
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: 
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<materialsCitation id="8FD7C98B2825C78EEABF0069FC47F053" collectingDate="1959-12-20" collectingDateMax="1960-01-05" collectingDateMin="1959-12-20" collectorName="R. Cumming" country="Bolivia" location="Saavedre Exp. Sta." specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Santa Cruz">
<collectingRegion id="8912EA394AA68AB4980AF4F11523EBE3" country="Bolivia" name="Santa Cruz">Santa Cruz</collectingRegion>
, 
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, 
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(4, USNM), same data but 
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. 
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: 
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: 
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, 
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, 
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, at light (3, UNSM)
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. 
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, 
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, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="D56488EF3D8D04E1992F61ECC855528D">Hamada</collectorName>
&amp; team, macrophytes along river margins and in floating island mats, BR18-0625-01A (4, INPA, SEMC)
</materialsCitation>
. 
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<emphasis id="E7B97E590790C58EF1B267A2355886E7" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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Paulo
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: 
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, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="C22DF62930560375947A9FC9A98BD483">C.A. Triplehorn</collectorName>
(2, USNM)
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. 
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: 
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: 
<location id="E87ADE3774EA06891AA2F8F5E43856DF" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2F1C4CB1EDF956749344E2264DA810EF:E87ADE3774EA06891AA2F8F5E43856DF" country="Ecuador" name="Limoncocha" stateProvince="Napo">Limoncocha</location>
, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="F95987B94A8E0309391318364DFDB6F4">P.J. Spangler</collectorName>
&amp; 
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#129 (1, USNM)
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. 
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<emphasis id="F5376E8F635560E1C8EE7276C2FFD083" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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: 
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, 
<location id="BA8400E09BD6B5699E0704DF65016B8C" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2F1C4CB1EDF956749344E2264DA810EF:BA8400E09BD6B5699E0704DF65016B8C" country="Guyana" municipality="Mazaruni-Potaro District" name="Kartabo Point">Kartabo Point</location>
, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="484779AB10142480537DE54474A1C9B9">W.E. Steiner</collectorName>
(1, USNM)
</materialsCitation>
. 
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: 
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: 
<location id="84D40BAFBBF3945F2FE6EC3BE889D1B0" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2F1C4CB1EDF956749344E2264DA810EF:84D40BAFBBF3945F2FE6EC3BE889D1B0" country="Panama" latitude="7.7553835" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="-77.68449" name="Cana" stateProvince="Darien">Cana</location>
ANCON station, 
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, 
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, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="CD6CE28FDAC8734576D71C38A59D7875">S. Lingafelter</collectorName>
, blacklight (1, SEMC)
</materialsCitation>
. 
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: 
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: 
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, 
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, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="F5A7AB70A30DC0F40263095B2427697C">R.A. Faitoute</collectorName>
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. 
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<emphasis id="C3D74AB1CC1A98DE520D612D06414A83" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectingCountry id="C73372D1977DD93D732D6774A25429C9" name="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad And Tobago</collectingCountry>
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: 
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, 
<materialsCitation id="AB151A6087EFB8BF3827618169DE9C4C" collectingDate="1969-07-15" collectingDateMax="1969-07-16" collectingDateMin="1969-07-15" collectorName="P. &amp; P. Spangler" country="Trinidad and Tobago" location="Piarco" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Piarco">
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, 
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, leg. 
<collectorName id="56A8641DE7306D1E0CB99FE10443C636">P. &amp; P. Spangler</collectorName>
(4, USNM)
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. 
<materialsCitation id="EA27E49DE5B82AA6EC05E6025E75E0F6" collectingDate="1988-07-25" collectorName="C. &amp; L. O'Brien, G. Wibmer" country="Venezuela" location="San Juan de Payara" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Apure">
<emphasis id="B321CDE8F70B64DE7EB5188A6A1C295C" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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: 
<collectingRegion id="66BA5DC74277A86244F09FF2F11E0943" country="Venezuela" name="Apure">Apure</collectingRegion>
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: 
<quantity id="D59FB9CBCC8560F7C9A46ECF87D6C017" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.0" unit="km" value="5.0">5 km</quantity>
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<location id="EA3A2B1EF8CB5ADC9054D60654D2A211" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2F1C4CB1EDF956749344E2264DA810EF:EA3A2B1EF8CB5ADC9054D60654D2A211" country="Venezuela" name="San Juan de Payara" stateProvince="Apure">San Juan de Payara</location>
, 350', 
<collectingDate id="B08BA83301868E5BA2213ACC34F33451" value="1988-07-25">25.vii.1988</collectingDate>
, leg. 
<collectorName id="32F83E32E4AF306EFCFBF11FE9C83930">
C. &amp; L. 
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</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName id="E523B1999E1A169BCE146FF8B2CF998C">G. Wibmer</collectorName>
(2, CAS)
</materialsCitation>
. 
<materialsCitation id="AB77804EBD1E102EA595AA0587B57A0F" collectingDate="1977-05-25" collectorName="El Limon, J. Clavijo" country="Venezuela" elevation="450" location="Aragua" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Aragua">
<emphasis id="6DD220C4BFA507C32E4F7D12FB06857E" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<collectingRegion id="CB400A7D4F029DDD7784DBF7583C32FF" country="Venezuela" name="Aragua">Aragua</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
<collectorName id="0C4F627915756322440BF4ACF474D769">El Limon</collectorName>
, 
<quantity id="BB755EC70AF6B9D1B100B5BDFEB5A66B" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.5" unit="m" value="450.0">
<elevation id="AA56AC86C6D4812D49A78B1ACD3BDBF2" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.5" unit="m" value="450.0">450 m</elevation>
</quantity>
, 
<collectingDate id="579F672423BA6C92E14B7824B79ED5A2" value="1977-05-25">25.v.1977</collectingDate>
, leg. 
<collectorName id="B100221336A75FD79F4FBBBAAA09FFF3">J. Clavijo</collectorName>
, at light (3, MIZA)
</materialsCitation>
. 
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</normalizedToken>
</emphasis>
: 
<location id="1528BDF8B97EB4C434484C37E39D205B" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2F1C4CB1EDF956749344E2264DA810EF:1528BDF8B97EB4C434484C37E39D205B" country="Venezuela" name="Corozo Pando" stateProvince="Guarico">Corozo Pando</location>
(
<quantity id="DEA8247CA42068DF2803C5B02C44036E" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="8.0" unit="km" value="8.0">8 km</quantity>
. 
<taxonomicName id="D8800D50DB205D77F8C920918A2D0A81" genus="N." lsidName="N." pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="genus">N.</taxonomicName>
), 
<collectingDate id="9A9F33EA7FB24C761CFE1607004D174B" value="1984-06-17" valueMax="1984-06-18" valueMin="1984-06-17">17-18.vi.1984</collectingDate>
, leg. 
<collectorName id="D92ABEF9DF3D7BA353177F8834A081FD">F.W. Eiland</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName id="5CFADFA1544A2CA8F2606EA45D7B399A">V. Linares</collectorName>
, blacklight (2, USNM)
</materialsCitation>
. 
<materialsCitation id="7D196BC0519A1678821190C44135891B" collectingDate="2009-01-29" collectorName="Machiques, Tukuko, Short, Garcia, Camacho" country="Venezuela" elevation="96" latitude="9.863883" location="Zulia" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="-72.72142" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Zulia">
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<collectingRegion id="4D2A71C66575899384BB3DFE47FFC28B" country="Venezuela" name="Zulia">Zulia</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
: 
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, 
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, 
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, btw 
<collectorName id="B5FE4025D8C6F1E2F276EA6CC6C3EF4A">Machiques</collectorName>
&amp; 
<collectorName id="BBCF75A398C26FC439AB535F074FF0C7">Tukuko</collectorName>
, 
<collectingDate id="2066C1DE5C81D2472092FBD6AAEB8364" value="2009-01-29">29.i.2009</collectingDate>
, leg. 
<collectorName id="B06E401A10F23E498ECA470C9AD0FA21">Short</collectorName>
, 
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<collectorName id="76E64591CE0E683CFB241D543A9161BB">Garcia</collectorName>
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, &amp; 
<collectorName id="78CF414140BDDE15DD2B1AE01FE448BB">Camacho</collectorName>
, roadside marsh, VZ09-0129-03Z (1, SEMC)
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="3146DBD206435922260A127969C72CEB" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="differential diagnosis">
<paragraph id="A1D896A372A16F6216A6A8310B3E4592" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="7E61257F204F6CAFC18F3CF470AD6952" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
This widespread species has several less common aedeagal features, particularly the straight, untoothed apices of the parameres (Fig. 
<figureCitation id="FA76888576E6BADC34D26F0BF8016AA7" captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Aedeagi of the Novochares sallaei species group A-E N. chaquensis F N. garciai G-I N. dicranospathus J-L N. atratus M-R N. sallaei A-C Argentina D Costa Rica E Trinidad M-P Guatemala Q, R Mexico A, D-G, J, M, Q dorsal view B, H, K, N, R ventral view C, I, L, O lateral view P oblique view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/881187" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">20A</figureCitation>
). The shallow, generally smooth fork at the apex of the dorsal plate of the median lobe is somewhat similar to 
<taxonomicName id="B842C0A6F1C580231A7528D7F38604CE" lsidName="N. garciai" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="garciai">
<emphasis id="8FF660DB923F6088F2D857FD5011FD1B" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">N. garciai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but that species has strongly sinuate outer margins of the parameres, as well as the dorsal plate being constricted medially (Fig. 
<figureCitation id="6B124F0F61F17940941A09DAABD1104D" captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figure 20. Aedeagi of the Novochares sallaei species group A-E N. chaquensis F N. garciai G-I N. dicranospathus J-L N. atratus M-R N. sallaei A-C Argentina D Costa Rica E Trinidad M-P Guatemala Q, R Mexico A, D-G, J, M, Q dorsal view B, H, K, N, R ventral view C, I, L, O lateral view P oblique view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/881187" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">20F</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="24FA59AC5A73D95CACE551FBC29A3772" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
<paragraph id="68DA7D33651FA0B1DC593DDA5C822CF7" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E41262A94C295DC7771636CDC8803D25" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
Body length 5.2-7.0 mm. 
<emphasis id="E4130371A389DF3DE916A0C8EC25C9B0" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Coloration</emphasis>
: Dorsal surfaces brown to dark brown, usually with slightly paler (brown to orange) margins of pronotum, and elytra. 
<emphasis id="2618CBD9C045478277576D8E5C1BE080" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Head</emphasis>
: Maxillary palps 1.2-1.3 
<normalizedToken id="AF5FF5ECBD2CCE66F06830F1BA131216" originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
width of head, orange to brown in color, with apex of each palpomere paler. 
<emphasis id="9EC512B9A8742F702E69C5F2AD124D24" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thorax</emphasis>
: Ground punctation on pronotum and elytra relatively dense and shallowly impressed. Elytra without rows of serial punctures, each with very faint rows (one dorsal and two or three lateral) of scarce and weakly marked systematic punctures. Prosternum medially broadly convex. Posterior elevation of mesoventrite broadly and roundly elevated, with medial longitudinal ridge extending anteriorly. 
<emphasis id="77150FF5FF531B48C9C58EE7B51F5A21" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Apical emargination of fifth ventrite relatively deep, U- to V-shaped. 
<emphasis id="4D9CE7A6FA478B6AB5FF4465F10DFB01" bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Aedeagus</emphasis>
: (Fig. 
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) Overall shape pear-like, 4.5 
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longer than wide, with outer lateral margins of parameres straight to weakly and evenly convex along basal 3/4; apical region of each paramere rounded, with outer margin smooth, not pointed; at closest point, dorsal inner margins of parameres separated by distance 0.5-1.0 
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greatest width of a paramere; dorsal plate of median lobe with neck 0.35-0.50 
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as broad as base; arms of dorsal plate of median lobe diverging, dorsally concave, nearly 0.1 
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length of dorsal plate of median lobe; each arm uniformly wide along basal 2/3, then narrowing to rounded to acute apex; notch between arms at base slightly wider than base of an arm; gonopore placed at base of dorsal plate of median lobe; ventral plate of median lobe weakly sclerotized, nearly membranous, triangular, irregular at apex, apex extending to second 1/3 of neck of dorsal plate; basal piece 0.3 
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length of a paramere. In lateral view, aedeagus oblique at base, with ventral outline of parameres 4.2 
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longer than greatest width near base; dorsal outline of aedeagus in lateral view straight nearly along basal 2/3.
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<paragraph id="7317F24E2CAA35FB240F9B81E780F4D6" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Argentina, Bolivia (new record), Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, 
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Paulo), Colombia (new record), Costa Rica (new record), Ecuador (new record), Guyana (new record), Panama (new record), Peru (new record), Trinidad and Tobago (new record), Venezuela (new record) (Fig. 
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). The only previously published locality that we have not examined specimens or images is the type locality in Argentina.
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<paragraph id="D80FE871EC3F28DBB117B26EC05B2B2D" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Habitat.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A628652ACA7B88B842F86FAAAAA89ADF" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Little is known about this species: most specimens were taken at light traps. One series of specimens was collected in floating macrophytes on the Paraguay River, others were collected in marshes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="DE35A5FCC8E38AF2E7716FA443EA5DC4" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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This species occurs from Costa Rica south to Argentina. Despite this vast range, it is rather uncommonly collected, with just a smattering of records known to us. Specimens from Colombia identified by 
<bibRefCitation id="A8EC07680FEA520265D2DE5F77DD7933" DOI="https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.605" author="Gonzalez-Rodriguez, LM" journalOrPublisher="Check List" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="605 - 620" refId="B24" refString="Gonzalez-Rodriguez, LM, Garcia-Hernandez, AL, Clarkson, B, 2017. First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindio Department, Colombia. Check List 13: 605 - 620, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.605" title="First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindio Department, Colombia." url="https://doi.org/10.15560/13.5.605" volume="13" year="2017">Gonzalez-Rodriguez et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
as 
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are in fact this species.
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We examined the aedeagus of a paratype of the hitherto Costa Rican endemic 
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, which we found to be an exact match to 
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leading us to synonymize the two species.
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