Novochares clavieri Short & Girón, 2023
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Short, Andrew Edward Z., Giron, Jennifer C. (2023): Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Novochares Giron & Short (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae). ZooKeys 1171: 1-112, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1171.104142
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Hydrophilidae
- genus
- Novochares
- species
- Novochares clavieri
description
Description. Body length 5.2 - 5.6 mm. Coloration: Dorsal surfaces brown to dark brown, with slightly paler (brown to orange) clypeus and margins of pronotum, and elytra. Head: Maxillary palps nearly 1.7 x width of head, orange in color, with apex of each palpomere paler. Thorax: Ground punctation on pronotum and elytra relatively dense and very shallowly impressed. Elytra without rows of serial punctures, each with very faint rows (one dorsal and two or three lateral) of scarce and weakly marked systematic punctures. Prosternum medially weakly convex. Posterior elevation of mesoventrite broadly and roundly elevated, with low medial longitudinal ridge extending anteriorly. Abdomen: Apical emargination of fifth ventrite relatively deep and broad, U-shaped. Aedeagus: (Fig. 18 L) Overall shape pear-like, nearly 2 x longer than wide, with outer lateral margins of parameres evenly sinuate; lateral projection on apical region of outer margin of each paramere pointed; at closest point, dorsal inner margins of parameres separated by distance 0.23 x greatest width of a paramere; dorsal plate of median lobe with neck 0.2 x as broad as base; arms of dorsal plate of median lobe diverging, nearly 0.35 x length of dorsal plate of median lobe; gonopore placed near base of dorsal plate of median lobe; ventral plate of median lobe not visible; basal piece 0.35 x length of a paramere. In lateral view, aedeagus nearly straight at base, somewhat triangular, with ventral outline of parameres 2 x longer than greatest width near basal 1 / 3; dorsal outline nearly straight.
description
Figs 18 L, 22 B
distribution
Distribution. Brazil (Amapa, Para), French Guiana, Peru (Fig. 22 B).
etymology
Etymology. Named in honor of Simon Clavier, Aquatic Biologist in French Guiana, who has contributed to our knowledge of the aquatic beetle fauna of the region and who assisted AEZS with fieldwork.