scholarly journals New records of the diving beetle Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908 in south-western Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)

Check List ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 643-648
Author(s):  
Lars Hendrich ◽  
Michael Balke
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
New Records ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
High Conservation ◽  
Diving Beetle

New distributional records of the rarely collected diving beetle Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908, an endemic species of south-western Australia, are presented. We also summarize what is known about its habitat. The occurrence of R. simulans indicates a high conservation value of the sampled wetland. For easier identification, we provide photographs of the habitus and male genitalia of R. simulans and R. suturalis (Macleay, 1825). Rhantus simulans is now recorded from 17 localities along the coast of south-western Australia. Furthermore, data on the location of other 31 diving beetle species are provided.

Checklist of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of El Salvador

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4951 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-106
Author(s):  
JOSÉ D. PABLO-CEA ◽  
ANGÉLICO ASENJO ◽  
JOSÉ L. NAVARRETE-HEREDIA ◽  
ALFRED F. NEWTON
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Ecological Literature

This paper is primarily a compilation of published data on the staphylinid beetle species reported for El Salvador. It is based on taxonomic and ecological literature, with inclusion of some new records from different entomological collections. Thirty eight genera and 96 species are reported in the list, including a first country record: Eulissus chalybaeus. Country-level distribution outside of El Salvador, locality references and topographic zones are included for each species. In the list, three endemic species are recorded: Seeversiella badia, S. minima and Stenus salvadorensis. It is remarkable that 14 genera (37%) and 52 species (54%) have only been reported at a country level in the literature, without a specific locality of collection, indicating the need for local inventories of this coleopteran family in the salvadoran territory. 

scholarly journals Terrestrial gastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of the Bulgarian part of the Alibotush Mts.

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Ivailo Kanev Dedov
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Karst Area ◽  
Distribution Data ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Terrestrial Gastropods ◽  
High Conservation

This work presents results of two years collecting efforts within the project “The role of the alpine karst area in Bulgaria as reservoir of species diversity”. It summarizes distribution data of 44 terrestrial gastropods from the Bulgarian part of Alibotush Mts. Twenty-seven species are newly recorded from the Alibotush Mts., 13 were confirmed, while 4 species, previously known from the literature, were not found. In the gastropod fauna of Alibotush Mts. predominate species from Mediterranean zoogeographic complex. A large part of them is endemic species, and this demonstrates the high conservation value of large limestone areas in respect of terrestrial gastropods.

Short-range endemism in hypogean environments: the pseudoscorpion genera Tyrannochthonius and Lagynochthonius (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) in the semiarid zone of Western Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Edward ◽  
Mark S. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Short Range ◽  
New Records ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Semiarid Zone ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Subterranean Species

We studied a variety of chthoniid pseudoscorpions collected from the semiarid zone of Western Australia. Five new species of Tyrannochthonius Chamberlin, 1929 and three new species of Lagynochthonius Beier, 1951 are named and described from the Pilbara and Gasgoyne regions, and surrounding areas such as Barrow Island. Tyrannochthonius basme, sp. nov. and Lagynochthonius asema, sp. nov. from pisolitic mesas near Pannawonica, T. garthhumphreysi, sp. nov. from limestone karst on Barrow Island, T. souchomalus, sp. nov. from calcrete deposits near Cue, T. billhumphreysi, sp. nov. and L. polydentatus, sp. nov. from a calcrete deposit on Sturt Meadows Station and L. leemouldi, sp. nov. from calcrete near Marble Bar are all considered to represent hypogean species as all exhibit typical troglomorphic adaptations including total loss of eyes and attenuated appendages. New records are provided for T. brooksi Harvey and T. butleri Harvey from Cape Range peninsula. A new epigean species, T. aridus, sp. nov., was found on Barrow Island and the Pilbara mainland. Two further putative new species based upon nymphal specimens from subterranean environments are described but not named owing to the lack of adult specimens. Although the epigean species T. aridus, sp. nov. is relatively widespread, all of the subterranean species are thought to represent short-range endemic species as they have been found at very few locations, all of which occur in localised habitats such as limestone or within mesa formations. Tyrannochthonius chamorro Chamberlin, 1947 from Guam is transferred to the genus Lagynochthonius, creating the new combination Lagynochthonius chamorro (Chamberlin 1947).

scholarly journals Integrative taxonomic review of the genus Peschetius (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) from India with description of two new species

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 535-553
Author(s):  
Sayali D. Sheth ◽  
Hemant V. Ghate ◽  
Neelesh Dahanukar ◽  
Jiří Hájek
Keyword(s):  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
New Records ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Indian Species ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit ◽  
Southern Western Ghats ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 ◽  
Taxonomic Approach ◽  
Diving Beetle

Abstract The diving beetle genus Peschetius Guignot, 1942 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in India is reviewed. Integrative taxonomic approach using morphology, multivariate morphometry and genetic analysis of cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 revealed the presence of four species, two of which are described here as new: Peschetius bistroemisp. nov. from southern Western Ghats (Kerala) differs from all known congeners with distinctly broadened male antennomeres IV and V, shape of the prosternal process and the male genitalia; P. nilssonisp. nov. from northern Western Ghats, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh is similar to the widespread Indian P. toxophorus Guignot, 1942, from which it differs in habitus, elytral colour pattern and the shape of the male genitalia. New records are presented for the remaining Indian species, namely P. quadricostatus (Aubé, 1838) and P. toxophorus. All species are diagnosed, illustrated and a key to their identification is provided.

Space, Place, and Agency in the Roe 8 Highway Protest, Western Australia

Contention ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Danielle Brady
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
The State ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
High Conservation

The struggle to save the Beeliar Wetlands, an urban remnant bushland in Perth, Western Australia, demonstrates elements of both urban social and urban environmental movements. At the end of 2016, 30 years of objection to the continuation of the Roe Highway development (Roe 8) culminated in months of intense protest leading up to a state election and a cessation of work in 2017. During the long-running campaign, protestors fought to preserve high-conservation-value bushland that was contained in the planned road reserve. At the heart of this dispute were competing spatial uses. This article will analyze four protest actions from the dispute using Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the production of space, and will demonstrate that the practices of protest gave those fighting to preserve Roe 8 the agency to reinscribe meaning to the natural uses of the Beeliar Wetlands over and against the uses privileged by the state.

scholarly journals Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from Montenegro with new records and description of the female of Hydroporus Macedonicus Fery & Pesic, 2006

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Pavicevic ◽  
V. Pesic
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
New Records ◽  
Beetle Species ◽  
Ecological Characteristics ◽  
Water Beetle ◽  
Diving Beetles ◽  
The Family ◽  
Aquatic Beetle ◽  
First Time ◽  
Diving Beetle

This paper deals with the aquatic beetle species of the family Dytiscidae collected from various freshwaters habitats in Montenegro. In total 39 water beetle species were collected from 56 localities in Montenegro between 2007 and 2010. Twelve species and one subspecies are reported for the first time for Montenegro: Agabus sturmii (Gyllenhal, 1808), A. paludosus (Fabricius, 1801), Deronectes moestus inconspectus (Leprieur, 1876), D. platynotus (Germar, 1834), Dytiscus circumcinctus Ahrens, 1811, D. dimidiatus Bergstr?sser, 1778, Hydroporus macedonicus Fery & Pesic, 2006, H. pubescens (Gyllenhal, 1808), Ilybius chalconatus (Panzer, 1797), I. fuliginosus fuliginosus (Fabricius, 1792), I. pseudoneglectus (Franciscolo, 1972), Liopterus haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1787) and Nebrioporus luctuosus (Aub?, 1838). The female genitalia of Hydroporus macedonicus Fery & Pesic, 2006, a rare water beetle previously known only from southern Macedonia, are illustrated. The present state of knowledge of the Montenegrin diving beetle fauna and its ecological characteristics is discussed.

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