Literature DB >> 25177045

Description of a New Genus and Species of Stygobiontic Diving Beetle, Psychopomporus felipi Jean, Telles, and Miller (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae), from the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer System of Texas, USA.

April Jean1, Nicole D Telles2, J Randy Gibson3, Dan Foley4, Kelly B Miller5.   

Abstract

Psychopomporus felipi Jean, Telles, and Miller, new genus and new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), is described from San Felipe Springs, Val Verde County, Texas, USA, which emerges from the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system. Psychopomporus felipi shows several features typical of subterranean diving beetles, such as depigmentation, compound eyes reduced, elytra fused, and flight wings absent. Psychopomporus differs from other hydroporine genera in having a broad elytral epipleuron, the prosternal process small and with a medial, strongly produced prominence, and the meso- and (to a lesser extent) protibia apically broadly expanded and medially distinctly curved. This is the fourth stygobiontic diving beetle described from the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system in south-central Texas, USA.

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Keywords:  groundwater; karst; stygofauna; subterranean; taxonomy

Year:  2012        PMID: 25177045      PMCID: PMC4148458          DOI: 10.1649/072.066.0202

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Coleopt Bull        ISSN: 0010-065X            Impact factor:   0.776


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Authors:  Remko Leys; Chris H S Watts; Steve J B Cooper; William F Humphreys
Journal:  Evolution       Date:  2003-12       Impact factor: 3.694

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1.  Life beneath the surface of the central Texan Balcones Escarpment: genus Anillinus Casey, 1918 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini): new species, a key to the Texas species, and notes about their way of life and evolution.

Authors:  Igor M Sokolov; James R Reddell; David H Kavanaugh
Journal:  Zookeys       Date:  2014-06-19       Impact factor: 1.546

2.  Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation.

Authors:  Thomas J Devitt; April M Wright; David C Cannatella; David M Hillis
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2019-01-14       Impact factor: 11.205

3.  Phylogenetic placement of the Pacific Northwest subterranean endemic diving beetle Stygoporus oregonensis Larson & LaBonte (Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae).

Authors:  Kojun Kanda; R Antonio Gomez; Richard Van Driesche; Kelly B Miller; David R Maddison
Journal:  Zookeys       Date:  2016-11-16       Impact factor: 1.546

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