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Issue: Vol. 4651 No. 3: 6 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.3.12
Page range: 596–600
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 4

Stenelmis koreana Satô, 1978 (Coleoptera: Elmidae): confirmed as a wide-spread species by DNA-sequencing

Sredne-Sadovaya str. 64, Samara 443016, Russia.
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Korean Entomological Institute, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
Korean Entomological Institute, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea.
Kemerovo State University, Krasnaya str. 6, Kemerovo 650043, Russia.
Coleoptera Riffle Beetles aquatic insects faunistics distribution cytochrome oxidase I Kyrgyzstan Siberia Korea

Abstract

Stenelmis koreana Satô, 1978 (Coleoptera: Elmidae) is here recorded for the first time from Kyrgyzstan and Western Siberia. It was hitherto thought to be confined to Korea and the Russian Far East. The identification of a specimen from Kyrgyzstan was confirmed by DNA-sequencing after comparison with two sequences of S. koreana from Korea. The COI haplotype of the Kyrgyzstan specimen has very low sequence divergence (0.53 % or 0.0053 uncorrected p-distance) with respect to the sequences of the Korean specimens, which is within the standard intraspecific sequence divergence for COI in beetles.

 

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