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Hydrochus piroei Makhan 1992
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Hydrochus piroei Makhan
Hydrochus piroei Makhan, 1992: 97
Originally described from Suriname, and recently reported from Venezuela (Perkins, 2019c), the following specimen records are from Ecuador. Images of the habitus and male genitalia of a specimen from Venezuela are given in Perkins (2019c).
Material examined (4): Ecuador: Napo, Limoncocha, (1°33’S, 75°35’W), 3.vi.1977, leg. W. E. Steiner (1 NMNH); same locality, 11.vi.1977, leg. P. J. Spangler & D. R. Givens (#115) (2 NMNH); same locality, 12.vi.1977, leg. W. E. Steiner (1 NMNH).
Notes
Published as part of Perkins, Philip D., 2020, Taxonomy of Ecuadorian water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae), pp. 358-374 in Zootaxa 4790 (2) on page 373, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/3889408
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMNH
- Event date
- 1977-06-03 , 1977-06-11 , 1977-06-12
- Family
- Hydrochidae
- Genus
- Hydrochus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Makhan
- Species
- piroei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1977-06-03 , 1977-06-11 , 1977-06-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hydrochus piroei Makhan, 1992 sec. Perkins, 2020
References
- Makhan, D. (1992) Twelve new Hydrochus - species from South America. Phegea, 20 (2), 95 - 103.
- Perkins, P. D. (2019 c) Taxonomy of Venezuelan water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817, and an analysis of male genitalia morphology (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae). Zootaxa 4708 (1), 1 - 59. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4708.1.1