Exocelina talaki
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Genus: Exocelina
Name
Exocelina talaki (Balke, 1998) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Copelatus (Papuadytes) talaki Balke, 1998: 337; Nilsson 2001[1]: 77 (catalogue).
- Papuadytes talaki (Balke, 1998): Nilsson and Fery 2006[2]: 56 (comb.n.).
- Exocelina talaki (Balke, 1998): Nilsson 2007[3]: 34 (comb.n.).
Type locality
Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Borme, ca. 04°24'S; 140°25'E, 1200 m a.s.l.
Type material studied
Holotype: male “IRIAN JAYA: Borme ca. 140°25'E, 04°24'S 1200 m, 2.9.1993 leg. M. Balke (1)”, “HOLOTYPUS” [red], “Copelatus talaki Balke des. 1997” [red] (NHMW). Paratypes: Three females with the same label as the holotype and additionally with red labels “Paratypus Copelatus talaki Balke des. 1997”, one of them with two additional labels “M. Balke 3294” [green] and “M. Balke 6415” [green text] (NHMW).
Diagnosis
Beetle small (TL-H 3.25–3.4 mm); oblong-oval; reddish brown to brown, with paler head and pronotum, with fine punctation and weakly impressed microreticulation, shiny; pronotum with distinct lateral bead; male antennae simple (Fig. 9); male protarsomere 4 with large, thick, strongly curved anterolateral hook-like seta; male protarsomere 5 long and narrow, without concavity, with anterior row of 14 and posterior row of seven relatively short setae; median lobe strongly curved, sharply pointed in lateral view, evenly tapering, with broadly pointed apex in ventral view; paramere with notch on its dorsal side and small, less evidently separated subdistal part with a tuft of dense setae; proximal setae inconspicuous (Fig. 11A–D). For complete description, see Balke (1998)[4].
Distribution
Papua: Pegunungan Bintang Regency (Fig. 12). The species is known only from the type material.
Taxon Treatment
- Shaverdo, H; Sumoked, B; Balke, M; 2017: Descriptions of two new species and one new subspecies from the Exocelina okbapensis-group, and notes on the E. aipo-group (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae) ZooKeys, (714): 1-21. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Nilsson A (2001) Dytiscidae. World catalogue of insects. Vol. 3. Stenstrup, Apollo Books, 395 pp.
- ↑ Nilsson A, Fery H (2006) World Catalogue of Dytiscidae – corrections and additions, 3 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 76: 55–74.
- ↑ Nilsson A (2007) Exocelina Broun, 1886, is the valid name of Papuadytes Balke, 1998. Latissimus 23: 33–34.
- ↑ Balke M (1998) Revision of New Guinea Copelatus Erichson, 1832 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): The running water species, Part I. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien 100B: 301–341.
