Helochares (Hydrobaticus) politus, Short & Girón, 2018

Short, Andrew Edward Z. & Girón, Jennifer C., 2018, Review of the Helochares (Hydrobaticus) MacLeay of the New World (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Acidocerinae), Zootaxa 4407 (1), pp. 29-50 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B45E9ABD-CB52-4EE7-91D6-783E8E958AC5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803376

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1FB1AFED-3D86-48B0-A9B8-6E2E38831DD9

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:1FB1AFED-3D86-48B0-A9B8-6E2E38831DD9

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Helochares (Hydrobaticus) politus
status

sp. nov.

Helochares (Hydrobaticus) politus View in CoL n. sp.

Figs. 4A View FIGURE 4 , 5I View FIGURE 5 , 7I View FIGURE 7 , 10B View FIGURE 10 .

Type material. Holotype (male): “ GUATEMALA: Departamen-/to de Huehuetenango,/ 11 km N. Santa Eulalia / on road to San Mateo / Ixtantan ,/ 2865m 5.II>1965/ D. E. Breedlove ” ( CAS).

Differential diagnosis. Body size 6.6 mm. Clypeus dark yellow with the central third darkened to dark brown. Elytra without any detectable serial punctures or striae ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Abdominal ventrites uniformly dark brown; pubescence dense and evenly distributed, the longest hairs shorter than those on the metaventrite. Aedeagus ( Fig. 7I View FIGURE 7 ) 2.5-times longer than its greatest width; apex of parameres rounded, with outer corners widely rounded; inner corners of apex of parameres forming a nearly right angle; lateral outer margins of parameres parallel, slightly constricted near midlength; maximum width of aedeagus at basal half, nearly as wide as maximum width of aedeagus at apical half; median lobe with apex gradually tapering to an acute point.

This species is extremely similar to H. laevis , from which it can only be definitively separated by the form of the aedeagus ( Fig. 7I View FIGURE 7 ).

Description. In addition to differential diagnosis: pronotum dark brown to black in central half ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Ground punctation on head and pronotum moderately impressed, slightly less impressed on the elytra.

Distribution. Guatemala ( Fig. 10B View FIGURE 10 ). The single specimen was taken at a very high elevation (2865m).

Etymology. Politus (L), after the smooth elytra which lacks any coarse serial punctures or striae.

Biology. Nothing is known about the biology of this species.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Helochares

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