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Issue: Vol. 4434 No. 3: 18 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.3.10
Page range: 561–572
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

Tepuidessus grulai sp. nov. from Acopán Tepui in Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Bidessini)

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 München, Germany.
Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 München, Germany.
Coleoptera Dytiscidae Hydroporinae Bidessini new species Tepui Venezuela

Abstract

We report the discovery of the second Bidessini diving beetle species from a Venezuelan table-top mountain (also referred to as "tepui"). Tepuidessus grulai sp. nov. from Acopán Tepui can easily be separated from Tepuidessus breweri Spangler, 1981, described from Roraima Tepui, about 140 km apart from Acopán Tepui, by its much broader habitus with distinct outline discontinuity between pronotum and elytra, well developed, long and deep basal striae on pronotum and elytra and by the unbordered apical abdominal ventrite.

 

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