Peltocercyon shigehisai Hoshina, 2018

Mai, Zuqi, Jia, Fenglong, Ryndevich, Sergey K., Angus, Robert, Minoshima, Yûsuke N., Fikáček, Martin & Růžička, Jan, 2025, Taxonomic Revision and Phylogeny of the Genus Peltocercyon d'Orchymont, 1925 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Megasternini), Zootaxa 5671 (1), pp. 1-74 : 60

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5671.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:60D33D8C-BDC2-4C2A-B840-90014815E8CB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16981968

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1032930E-FFB9-6B17-FF2C-2277B57AEAE3

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scientific name

Peltocercyon shigehisai Hoshina, 2018
status

 

Peltocercyon shigehisai Hoshina, 2018 View in CoL

Peltocercyon shigehisai Hoshina, 2018: 293 View in CoL . Type locality: Japan ( Ebetsu , Hokkaido).

Remarks. No specimens were examined in this study. The species was described based on a single male. Based on the original description, this species can be distinguished from P. subopacipennis by the following characteristics: P. shigehisai has a dark brown pronotum and blackish brown elytra, with the elytral surface weakly microreticulate, and median lobe of aedeagus almost straight at both sides in ventral view. In contrast, P. subopacipennis has yellowish brown pronotum and elytra, surface of elytra strongly microreticulate, and median lobe sharply narrowed at apical third ( Hoshina, 2018)

Distribution ( Fig. 41 View FIGURE 41 ). Japan (Ebetsu).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Peltocercyon

Loc

Peltocercyon shigehisai Hoshina, 2018

Mai, Zuqi, Jia, Fenglong, Ryndevich, Sergey K., Angus, Robert, Minoshima, Yûsuke N., Fikáček, Martin & Růžička, Jan 2025
2025
Loc

Peltocercyon shigehisai

Hoshina, H. 2018: 293
2018
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