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

ANDREW EDWARD Z. SHORT; LUKE GREENE; MAURICIO GARCIA

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.3

Issue: Vol. 3741 No. 3: 28 Nov. 2013

Type: Article

Published: 2013-11-28

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.3.3

Page range: 349–358

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**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⁺⁻

Division of Entomology, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite 140, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. Universidad del Zulia. Apartado 526, Maracaibo 4011-A. Estado Zulia, Venezuela

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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.