Colossochares is an Afrotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by two described species.[1]
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| Genus: | Colossochares Hansen, 1991
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Taxonomy edit
The genus Colossochares was created in 2021 to group two species of Afrotropical water scavenger beetles in the subfamily Acidocerinae that were formerly placed in the genus Helochares.[1]
Evidence for separating these species from Helochares and constituting a new genus was provided by molecular data.[2]
Description edit
Relatively large beetles (8.5–14.0 mm), dark brown in coloration, very convex in lateral view. A diagnosis of the genus was presented by Girón and Short.[1]
Species edit
References edit
- ^ a b c Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2021-06-18). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8233300. PMID 34228772.
- ^ Short, Andrew Edward Z.; Girón, Jennifer C.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A. (2021). "Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America". Systematic Entomology. 46 (2): 380–395. doi:10.1111/syen.12467. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 232264478.
- ^ d'Orchymont, A. (1933). "Contribution à l'étude des Palpicornia VIII". Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 73: 271–314, pl. 5.
- ^ Hebauer, F. (2003). "A new species of the genus Helochares (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Africa". Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology. 6: 129–132.
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