Copelatus Erichson from the Dominican Republic, with the description of a new species, comments on elytral striation and faunistic notes on Antillean species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae)
Author
Manuel, Michaël
Author
Deler-Hernández, Albert
Author
Megna, Yoandri S.
Author
Hájek, Jiří
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-22
4399
3
371
385
journal article
30438
10.11646/zootaxa.4399.3.7
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[
Copelatus insolitus
Chevrolat, 1863
]
Published records (Hispaniola).
St. Domingo:
Sharp (1882: 568)
; without precise locality:
Blackwelder (1944: 77)
,
Peck (2005: 44)
,
Perez-Gelabert (2008: 77)
.
Diagnosis.
See
Megna & Epler (2012)
.
Remark.
This species was recorded from Hispaniola by
Sharp (1882)
from
Santo Domingo
, and from
Jamaica
by
Schaeffer (1908)
. Both records were subsequently repeated by
Blackwelder (1944)
. However, the latter author was apparently not aware that at the same time,
Young (1942)
treated Antillean
Copelatus
of the
hydroporoides
- group, described several new species from
Cuba
and
Jamaica
and restricted the occurrence of
C. insolitus
to
Cuba
. Therefore, we consider its presence in Hispaniola as improbable. We were not able to trace any specimens of the
hydroporoides
-group from
the Dominican
Republic, but if such exist, they likely represent another, potentially undescribed species.
Distribution
.
Cuba
; occurrence in
Jamaica
and Hispaniola doubtful.