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Genus of beetles

Colossochares
Dorsal view of Colossochares ellipticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
Subfamily: Acidocerinae
Genus: Colossochares
Hansen, 1991
Diversity
2 species

Colossochares is an Afrotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by two described species.

Taxonomy

The genus Colossochares was created in 2021 to group two species of Afrotropical water scavenger beetles in the subfamily Acidocerinae that were formerly placed in the genus Helochares.

Evidence for separating these species from Helochares and constituting a new genus was provided by molecular data.

Description

Relatively large beetles (8.5–14.0 mm), dark brown in coloration, very convex in lateral view. A diagnosis of the genus was presented by Girón and Short.

Species

  1. Colossochares ellipticus (d'Orchymont, 1933)
  2. Colossochares satoi (Hebauer, 2003)

References

  1. ^ Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2021-06-18). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8233300. PMID 34228772.
  2. Short, Andrew Edward Z.; Girón, Jennifer C.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A. (2021). "Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America". Systematic Entomology. 46 (2): 380–395. doi:10.1111/syen.12467. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 232264478.
  3. d'Orchymont, A. (1933). "Contribution à l'étude des Palpicornia VIII". Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 73: 271–314, pl. 5.
  4. Hebauer, F. (2003). "A new species of the genus Helochares (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Africa". Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology. 6: 129–132.
Taxon identifiers
Colossochares


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