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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.Entities:
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