Paracymus evanescens Sharp, 1890

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 125

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244881

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13245250

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scientific name

Paracymus evanescens Sharp, 1890
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Paracymus evanescens Sharp, 1890 View in CoL

Paracymus evanescens Sharp, 1890: 349 View in CoL ; Knisch, 1924b: 166; d’Orchymont, 1927: 246-259; Fernando, 1961: 23; 1964: 87; Wooldridge, 1977: 126; Balke et al., 1999: 326; Hansen, 1999: 110, and references therein.

Material examined. – 37 specimens – Central catchment area - 2 ex., Chestnut Drive , Seletar Forest, 9 Jun.1994, NS 156, coll. H. K. Lua et al. ( ZRC) ; 2 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest , 9 May.1992, Y 794D, coll. K. L. Yeo ( ZRC) . Bukit Timah - 6 ex., Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , 6 Dec.1995, NS 206, coll. T. Wong & H. K. Lua ( CBH, ZRC) ; 16 ex., Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , 13 Dec.1995, NS 214, coll. T. Wong & H. K. Lua ( CBH, ZRC) ; 10 ex., Bukit Timah Nature Reserve , swamp near fishpond, 9 Apr.1997, coll. M. Balke & L. Hendrich ( CBH, NMW, ZRC) . Other areas - 1 ex., Bukit Batok Nature Park , former granite quarry pond, 18 Nov.1995, LHK 293, coll. H. K. Lua & Goh S.L. ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Sri Lanka ( Wooldridge, 1977; Hansen, 1999), West Malaysia ( Fernando, 1964), Singapore (Balke et al., 1999).

Ecology. – A lentic species living in very shallow water at the edge of small, exposed, and well-vegetated pools, puddles and slow-flowing streams and ditches mainly in or nearby forested areas. The puddles in Bukit Timah Reserve were fed by small helocrenes. The species has been recorded under lighted conditions (d’Orchymont, 1927; Fernando, 1961).

Fernando, C. H., 1961. Notes on Aquatic Insects caught at Light in Malaya with a Discussion of their Distribution and Dispersal. Bulletin of the National Museum, Singapore, 32 (1963): 80 - 90.

Fernando, C. H., 1964. Notes on aquatic insects colonizing an isolated pond in Mawai, Johore. Bulletin of the National Museum, Singapore, 30: 19 - 31.

Hansen, M., 1999. Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). In: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 2. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 416 pp.

Knisch, A., 1924 b. Hydrophilidae. In: Junk, W. & S. Schenkling (eds.), Coleopterorum Catatalogus, Berlin, 79: 1 - 306.

Sharp, D., 1890. On some aquatic Coleoptera from Ceylon. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1890: 339 - 359.

Wooldridge, D. P., 1977. Paracymus of the Oriental Faunal Region. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 50 (1): 119 - 128.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Paracymus