Protosternum, SHARP, 1890

Angus, Robert B, Sadílek, David, Shaarawi, Fatma, Dollimore, Hayley, Liu, Hsing-Che, Seidel, Matthias, Sýkora, Vít & Fikáček, Martin, 2021, Karyotypes of water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): new data and review of published records, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192 (3), pp. 958-958 : 958-

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa105

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Protosternum
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GENUS PROTOSTERNUM SHARP, 1890 View in CoL

( FIG. 15J–L View Figure15 )

Material examined: Protosternum abnormale (dʼ Orchymont, 1913) : 1 male ( NMPC): Taiwan: Nantou County, Yushan National Park, Dongbu Scenic Area, Dong Bu , 5.4 km SE of Heshe, rotten banana trunks on the margin of a village, 23.5610°N 120.93044°E, 15.v.2018, M. Fikáček, W.- R. Liang, H.-C. Liu & Y. Minoshima lgt. (2018-TW33) GoogleMaps .

Karyotype: 2 n = 32. The material to hand is from the testis and some nuclei at least, particularly that in Figure 15J View Figure15 , appear to be first of meiotic metaphase I and exhibit 16 bivalents. The karyotype hence likely comprise 15 pairs of autosomes plus Xy sex chromosomes.

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NMPC

National Museum Prague

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

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