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<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C4E2FD3626B0572A" bold="true" box="[151,478,766,792]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Discozantaena occidentalis</emphasis>
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&
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)
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Material.
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(male):
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,
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, Western Cape Province, West Coast National Park, permanent pond at Abrahamskraal,
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,
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, D.T. Bilton leg. (
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).
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and reeds, D.T. Bilton leg. (2
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<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C4B2FC3126BA5020" bold="true" box="[199,468,1017,1042]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Differential Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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Members of this species will key to
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in Perkins (2005). The two species differ in body shape and colour.
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<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C671FBD625E25007" box="[516,652,1053,1077]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">D. genuvela</emphasis>
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is more broadly explanate (head, pronotum and elytra); the explanate margins of the elytra nearly attain the apices, and all explanate margins are usually much lighter in colour than the remainder of the dorsum. In
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the explanate elytral margins end well before the apices, the apices therefore appearing more accuminate, and there is less contrast in the colours of the margins and the remainder of the dorsum. In
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the pronotum is more transverse and less arcuate laterally, and the elytra are longer relative to the pronotal length (ca. 1.13/
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). The male genitalia of the two species are similar in that both have a corkscrew-like flagellum. The aedeagus of
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differs diagnostically from that
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of
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, however, being much shorter and having a much wider mainpiece, especially apically (
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).
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<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C4BCFAA926F05148" bold="true" box="[201,414,1377,1402]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Description. Size:</emphasis>
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(length/width, mm)
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: body (length to elytral apices) 1.64/0.84, head 0.26/0.50, pronotum 0.44/0.69, elytra 1.04/0.84.
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<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C633FA4D25CD51AC" bold="true" box="[582,675,1413,1438]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Colour:</emphasis>
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Dorsum dark brown to piceous, with margins of pronotum, frontal angles of head and reflexed margins of elytra paler. Ventral surface piceous, elytral epipleurs and pronotal hypomera brown.
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Frons relatively flat between oblique lateral fovea, disc shiny, weakly granulate; decumbent hyaline setae sparse and relatively long, directed largely posteriorly on disc, and centrally towards eyes. Clypeus transverse, weakly emarginated, with rounded anterior angles; smooth and shining in centre; rugose towards sides. Labrum shining and sparsely setose; apicomedian emargination strongly reflexed into a broadly elevated conical projection.
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Strongly transverse; anterior margin weakly arcuate, median ½ with narrow hyaline border; anterior angles sharply rounded; sides arcuate then emarginated before tooth-like posterior angles. Sides minutely denticulate; denticles with small, hyaline setae. Pronotal disc shining, with well-marked anterior and posterior broad U-shaped impressions. Pronotum with relatively fine and sparse, hyaline decumbent setae, each arising from a linearly elongate, backwardly-pointing granule; setae denser in depressions, sparser in explanate areas towards lateral margins.
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||
<collectingCountry id="F7D6766CFF89FFF8C617F8D925F4531B" box="[610,666,1809,1833]" name="India" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Hind</collectingCountry>
|
||
margin with central 1/3 slightly raised, shiny and with sparse setae. Wings full-length.
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF89FFF8C500F8FE26A5537C" bold="true" box="[373,459,1846,1870]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Elytra:</emphasis>
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||
Anterior angles sharply rounded, arcuate to just behind middle, then attenuate to narrowly truncate apices. Lateral margin narrowly explanate midway to interval outside tenth puncture series. Ten seriate punctate, with two additional, weakly differentiated series on explanate margins. Punctures of series transversely oval; shallow and relatively open towards hind margins, front margins steeper. Each puncture overhung by small granule, bearing a fine, backwardly-pointing decumbent hyaline seta; each seta reaching back as far as next granule in series. Punctures broader towards elytral base. Intervals lacking punctures or microreticulation; shining. Sutural margin raised in posterior 2/3.
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||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC7CDFF74237F54E6" bold="true" box="[952,1041,188,212]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Venter:</emphasis>
|
||
Metaventrite with weak median longitudinal impression. Thoracic sterna and abdominal ventrites 1–4 entirely and 5 basally clothed with sparse pubescence; longer setae present towards hind margins of metaventrite and abdominal ventrites.
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC0ABFECB2234552E" bold="true" box="[1246,1370,259,284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Aedeagus:</emphasis>
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Total length
|
||
<quantity id="48399B19FF8AFFFBC492FEEF263F550D" box="[231,337,295,319]" metricMagnitude="-4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.4" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" unit="mm" value="0.44">0.44 mm</quantity>
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||
; mainpiece length
|
||
<quantity id="48399B19FF8AFFFBC658FEEF25F9550D" box="[557,663,295,319]" metricMagnitude="-4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.8" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" unit="mm" value="0.28">0.28 mm</quantity>
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||
; mainpiece short and stout, with characteristically shaped widened distal area. Flagellum short, stiff, with a corkscrew-like single coil.
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||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC7E3FE8424995556" bold="true" box="[918,1015,332,356]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Female:</emphasis>
|
||
Labrum lacking apicomedial conical projection. Pronotal impressions slightly deeper than in males. Median longitudinal impression of metaventrite deeper and more linear than in males.
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC615FE5B25B9559E" bold="true" box="[608,727,403,428]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Variation:</emphasis>
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||
<typeStatus id="507A885EFF8AFFFBC690FE5D243C559F" box="[741,850,405,429]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
|
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vary slightly in overall shape, some having more broadly rounded elytral angles than observed in the
|
||
<typeStatus id="507A885EFF8AFFFBC6A9FE7F242C55FD" box="[732,834,439,463]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
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. Such variation is present in both sexes.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<caption id="DBBE6674FF8AFFFBC4E2F92C249752C8" box="[151,1017,1764,1787]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/213611/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" targetBox="[322,1262,519,1734]" targetPageId="2">
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||
<paragraph id="8F7E36FCFF8AFFFBC4E2F92C249752C8" blockId="2.[151,1017,1764,1787]" box="[151,1017,1764,1787]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC4E2F92C267D52CB" bold="true" box="[151,275,1764,1787]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8AFFFBC56CF92D255E52C8" box="[281,560,1764,1786]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Discozantaena" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis" status="sp. nov.">
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||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC56CF92D255E52C8" box="[281,560,1764,1786]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Discozantaena occidentalis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A6865795FF8AFFFBC643F92D250052C8" box="[566,622,1765,1786]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
, dorsal and lateral habitus of holotype.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
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||
<subSubSection id="C7DB6577FF8AFFFBC4BCF8EA2788536C" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" type="etymology">
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||
<paragraph id="8F7E36FCFF8AFFFBC4BCF8EA2788536C" blockId="2.[151,1436,1825,2030]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">
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||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC4BCF8EA26215308" bold="true" box="[201,335,1826,1850]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Etymology.</emphasis>
|
||
Named in reference to the distribution on the west coast of the Western Cape Province of
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F7D6766CFF8AFFFBC12EF8E9278C536C" name="South Africa" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">South Africa</collectingCountry>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C7DB6577FF8AFFFAC4BCF8A126D65556" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="54" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="8F7E36FCFF8AFFFAC4BCF8A126D65556" blockId="2.[151,1436,1825,2030]" lastBlockId="3.[151,1436,151,356]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="54" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC4BCF8A1269553B0" bold="true" box="[201,507,1897,1922]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Distribution and Ecology.</emphasis>
|
||
Currently known only from the
|
||
<typeStatus id="507A885EFF8AFFFBC712F8A224F953B0" box="[871,919,1898,1922]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality, Abrahamskraal (
|
||
<figureCitation id="17FA2A79FF8AFFFBC0CCF8A1239253B3" box="[1209,1276,1897,1921]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1810,1833]" captionTargetBox="[260,1324,1076,1784]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[260,1326,988,1787]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 5. Type Locality of Discozantaena occidentalis n. sp. Abrahamskraal, West Coast National Park, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Discozantaena found at far end of site, beneath spike-rush tussocks. Photo P. Cotton." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/213614/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
|
||
), a permanent man-made waterhole north of Yzerfontein in West Coast National Park, Western Cape Province. At Abrahamskraal beetles were found living in damp marginal plant litter overlying silt, on limestone rock. Occupied areas had sparse algal biofilms, and were mostly shaded by spike-rush tussocks (
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8AFFFBC7F5F81F24A053DC" box="[896,974,2007,2030]" class="Liliopsida" family="Juncaceae" genus="Juncus" kingdom="Plantae" order="Poales" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC7F5F81F24A053DC" box="[896,974,2007,2030]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Juncus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
cf.
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8AFFFBC78AF81E232353DC" box="[1023,1101,2006,2030]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">krausii</emphasis>
|
||
), which maintained a humid microenvironment. Beetles were collected by shore washing, or by scraping off surface debris by hand, and agitating this in shallow water until specimens floated to the surface. Abrahamskraal contains a rich water beetle fauna, with a range of Cape endemic species, particularly
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC754FF1724F254C5" box="[801,924,223,247]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Dytiscidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
, including
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC062FF2822F954C5" authority="Fabricius, 1787" authorityName="Fabricius" authorityYear="1787" box="[1047,1431,223,248]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Rhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cicurus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC062FF2823A254CA" box="[1047,1228,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Rhantus cicurus</emphasis>
|
||
(Fabricius, 1787)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC4E2FECC255A552E" authority="Sharp, 1882" authorityName="Sharp" authorityYear="1882" box="[151,564,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Coelhydrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevicollis">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC4E2FECC26F7552E" box="[151,409,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Coelhydrus brevicollis</emphasis>
|
||
Sharp, 1882
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC631FECC24B7552E" authority="Sharp, 1882" authorityName="Sharp" authorityYear="1882" box="[580,985,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Darwinhydrus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="solidus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC631FECC242E552E" box="[580,832,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Darwinhydrus solidus</emphasis>
|
||
Sharp, 1882
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC06CFECD22F7552E" authority="Sharp, 1882" authorityName="Sharp" authorityYear="1882" box="[1049,1433,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Primospes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suturalis">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC06CFECD2393552E" box="[1049,1277,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Primospes suturalis</emphasis>
|
||
Sharp, 1882
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC4E2FEE126A25572" box="[151,460,296,320]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Discozantaena" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC4E2FEE126A25572" box="[151,460,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Discozantaena occidentalis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A6865795FF8BFFFAC5A1FEE0257E550D" box="[468,528,296,319]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
was microsympatric with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC749FEE0238B550D" authority="Peringuey, 1892" authorityName="Peringuey" authorityYear="1892" box="[828,1253,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Ochthebius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="extremus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC749FEE023495572" box="[828,1063,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Ochthebius extremus</emphasis>
|
||
Péringuey, 1892
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="48C14D7FFF8BFFFAC169FEE026DA5556" authority="Perkins, 2011" authorityName="Perkins" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Ochthebius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="granulinus">
|
||
<emphasis id="BDB5EAEEFF8BFFFAC169FEE0267E5556" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Ochthebius granulinus</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EB504B0DFF8BFFFAC562FE8426DA5556" author="Perkins" box="[279,436,332,356]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" refString="Perkins, P. D. (2011) New species and new collection records of aquatic beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) Zootaxa, 3093, 1 - 34." type="journal article" year="2011">Perkins, 2011</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |