Hydraena mahensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Hydraenidae
Genus: Hydraena
Name
Hydraena mahensis Scott, 1913 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Hydraena (s.str.) mahensis: Scott 1913[1]: 196; Knisch 1924[2]: 39; Hansen 1998[3]: 49.
- Hydraena mahensis: Marlier 1979[4]: 53.
- Hydraena (Hydraenopsis) mahensis: Jäch et al. 2000[5]: 80; Jäch and Madl 2009[6]: 19 (partim).
Type localities
Marshes of coastal plain at Anse aux Pins and Anse Royale, Mahé, Seychelles.
Type material
Two syntypes. One of these syntypes is deposited in the BMNH (M. Barclay, email, 22.VII.2016). It is labelled as “Holotype” (red edged disc) and as ‘Type’ (blue rectangle). The second syntype (“Mahe 146” [handwritten on the rear edge of the card carrying the beetle], “Mahe 1908-09 Seychelles Exp.” [printed], “Hydraena mahensis H. Scott Paratype.” [handwritten]) is deposited in the Cambridge University Museum (W. Foster, email, 7.IX.2016).
Material examined
Mahé: 26 exs. (CDUM, NMW): Mahé (south), Petite Police Bay, swamp, 4°48.10'S 55°31.03'E, IX.2014, leg. M. Madl. La Digue: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (NMW): La Réunion, ca. 5 m a.s.l., 7.IV.2007, leg. G. Wewalka (7).
The DNA of one female (voucher number IBE-AN186) was non-destructively extracted using the DNeasy Tissue Kit (Qiagen GmbH, Hilden, Germany) in the IBE. Two fragments of the cytochrome C oxydase subunit (COI) were sequenced, the 5’ end (the barcode fragment, primers LCO1490 and HCO2198, Folmer et al. 1994[7]) and the 3’ end (primers Jerry-M202 and Pat-M70, Simon et al. 1994[8]), and submitted to GenBank with accession numbers LT593860 and LT593861 respectively. The extracted specimen and DNA are deposited in the IBE.
Redescription
Habitus as in Fig. 1. Body length (without abdomen): 1.20–1.40 mm. Dorsum brown, frons dark brown to black, posterior and lateral sides of pronotum paler yellowish brown; maxillary palpi and legs yellowish to yellowish brown.
Labrum deeply excised anteriorly; lobes rounded anteriorly. Middle of clypeus very sparsely punctate and glabrous, lateral parts densely micropunctate and mat. Fronto-clypeal suture more or less straight, slightly impressed. Frons moderately densely punctate laterally, sparsely punctate medially, interstices shining; interocular grooves obsolete. Eyes large, protruding, more than 30 facets visible in dorsal view.
Pronotum wider than long, widest near middle; anterior margin weakly concave; anterior angles rounded; lateral rim denticulate; surface moderately densely punctate, but disc sometimes more sparsely punctate; discal foveae more or less obsolete. Elytra elongately oval; with about nine rows of punctures between suture and shoulder; punctures small, not deeply impressed, arranged in almost regular, usually not impressed lines; intervals and interstices flat and glabrous; explanate margin of elytra only moderately wide, not strongly serrate posteriorly. Elytral apices usually separately rounded.
Foretibia very slightly curved in both sexes.
Mesoventral process parallel-sided, apically truncate, width sexually dimorphic. Metaventrite moderately deeply impressed in the middle; metaventral plaques rather indistinct, sometimes obscured by dense punctures.
Male terminal sternite and spiculum (Fig. 7): Sternite firmly connected with spiculum, subrectangular, almost twice as long as wide, almost symmetrical, with small subapical cavity; base with very small lateral projections.
Aedeagus (Figs 3–6): Total length: 190 µm. Main piece short, almost straight, with two moderately long setae, and a few very short ones on left side near base of distal lobe; phallobase slightly asymmetrical, closed proximally. Distal lobe quite large, about as long as main piece, forming a distinct angle with main piece (in lateral view), apically furcate. Right paramere wide, elongate, about half as long as main piece, articulately connected with main piece, inserted near apex of main piece; with four long apical setae and four moderately long setae on ventral face along right margin. Left paramere similar to right one, but slightly shorter, firmly connected with main piece, inserted on left side of apex.
Gonocoxite (Fig. 8): Subpentagonal, transverse; lateral margins curved; basal apophyses short; inner plate not projecting.
Female tergite X (Fig. 9): Subtrapezoidal, transverse; disc sparsely covered with trichoid setae; subapical setae vermiform; apical margin excised medially.
Spermatheca (Figs 10–11): Proximal portion crescentic; distal portion cup-shaped; ductus apically wrinkled.
Secondary sexual characters: Male mesoventral process more slender; in male more or less as wide as mesotibia, in female slightly wider than mesotibia.
Habitat
Swamps and ditches in coastal plain. The swamp at Petite Police Bay (Fig. 20) dries out periodically.
Distribution
This species is so far known only from Mahé (Anse aux Pins, Anse Royale, Petite Police Bay) and La Digue (La Réunion). It is here recorded from La Digue for the first time.
Taxon Treatment
- Jäch, M; Delgado, J; 2016: Hydraena Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from the Seychelles, Indian Ocean, with description of a new species ZooKeys, (623): 75-88. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Scott H (1913) No. X – Coleoptera; Hydrophilidæ, Histeridæ – Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., Vol. V, Part II. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2nd series, Zoology) 16: 193–235.
- ↑ Knisch A (1924) Hydrophilidae. In: Schenkling S (Ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 306 pp.
- ↑ Hansen M (1998) Hydraenidae. In: Hansen M (Ed.) World Catalogue of Insects 1. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 168 pp.
- ↑ Marlier G (1979) Une mission hydrobiologique aux Seychelles. Les Naturalistes Belges 60(1): 44–58.
- ↑ Jäch M, Beutel R, Díaz J, Kodada J (2000) Subgeneric classification, description of head structures, and world check list of Hydraena Kugelann (Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (Ser. B) 102: 177–258. http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/ANNA_102B_0177-0258.pdf
- ↑ Jäch M, Madl M (2009) 1. Water beetles of Seychelles (Coleoptera). In: Gerlach J (Ed.) The Coleoptera of the Seychelles islands. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 11–35.
- ↑ Folmer O, Black M, Hoeh W, Lutz R, Vrijenhoek R (1994) DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 3: 294–299. http://www.mbari.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Folmer_94MMBB.pdf
- ↑ Simon C, Frati F, Beckenbach A, Crespi B, Liu H, Flook P (1994) Evolution, weighting, and phylogenetic utility of mitochondrial gene sequences and a compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87: 651–701. doi: 10.1093/aesa/87.6.651
