Mesoceration reticulatum Perkins, 2008

Bilton, David T., 2015, New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 3972 (4), pp. 495-520 : 514

Mesoceration reticulatum Perkins, 2008

Widely distributed west-east in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. I can add the following records, including the first from the Swartberg range: 23/ix/2008 Eastern Cape, Garden Route National Park, Storm River Mouth, afrotemperate forest, second stream on E side of entrance— 1 ♂, 1♀; 1/i/2014 Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road ( Fig. 6 C)— 1 ♂. The Swartberg specimen is more strongly sculptured than specimens I have seen from elsewhere in the range, as well as having a slightly more robust apical tooth on the main piece of the aedeagus.

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FIGURE 6. Habitats of Mesoceration species in South Africa. A) Western Cape, Matsikammaberg, permanent stream 1 km SE of Sewefontein farm— M. foggoi sp. nov., M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., M. umbrosum; B) Western Cape, False Bay, small stream on R 44 road below Boskloof Peak— M. sinclairi sp. nov., M. brevigranum; C) Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road— M. barriotum, M. littlekarroo, M. reticulatum, M. splendorum; D) Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain, stream in Echo Valley— M. abstrictum, M. tabulare. Photos D. T. Bilton.