New species and new records of the hygropetric water beetle genus Oocyclus Sharp from South America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Andrew Edward Z Short; Luke Greene; Mauricio Garcia

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.3

New species and new records of the hygropetric water beetle genus Oocyclus Sharp from South America (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Zootaxa. 2013 Nov 28:3741:349-58. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.3.

Authors

Andrew Edward Z Short¹, Luke Greene², Mauricio Garcia³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.; Email: aezshort@ku.edu.
² Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.; Email: unknown.
³ Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. Universidad del Zulia. Apartado 526, Maracaibo 4011-A. Estado Zulia, Venezuela; Email: unknown.

PMID: 25112994
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.3

Abstract

Three new species of Oocyclus Sharp, 1882 are described from tropical South America: O. maluz sp. n. (Venezuela), O. miza sp. n. (Venezuela), and O. brunneus sp. n. (Bolivia). New distributional records are provided for O. andinus Short & García, O. coromoto Short & García (newly recorded from Suriname), O. floccus Short & García (newly recorded from Guyana and Suriname), O. iguazu (Oliva), O. meridensis Short & García, O. petra Short & García (newly recorded from Guyana and Suriname), O. trio Short & Kadosoe (newly recorded from Guyana), O. trujillo Short & García, and O. yubai Clarkson & Short (newly recorded from Paraguay). Updates to the keys of the Brazilian and Venezuelan Oocyclus species are provided.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Coleoptera / anatomy & histology
Coleoptera / classification*
Male
South America