Tropisternus apicipalpis Chevrolat 1834
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Liza M.
name: García-Hernández, Andrea L.
name: Clarkson, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Tropisternus
Tropisternus apicipalpis

description: <i>Tropisternus apicipalpis</i> Chevrolat, 1834 (Figs 15, 39) <i>Hydrophilus apicipalpis</i> Chevrolat 1834: 44. <i>Tropisternus apicipalpis</i> (Chevrolat) — Castelnau 1840: 53. <i>Tropisternus</i> (<i>Cyphostethus</i>) <i>apicipalpis</i> (Chevrolat) — Orchymont 1921b: 364. <i>Tropisternus</i> (<i>Pristoternus</i>) <i>apicipalpis</i> (Chevrolat) — Orchymont 1943: 54. <i>Tropisternus agilis</i> Castelnau, 1840: 53. Syn.: Orchymont 1921b: 364. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Body 14–16 mm in length. Color black with dark green sheen. Punctation on head fine and strongly impressed. Meso-metaventral process forming a long keel posteriorly projected as a long spine that reaches the anterior third of abdominal ventrite II. Last ventrite with strong spine-like elevation projected posteriad with a tuft of short golden setae at apex. Parameres truncate apically, slightly longer than median lobe, weakly narrower at apex than at base; median lobe acuminate and wide at apex, slightly wider sub-basally; corona U-shaped, apically bifid; phallobase shorter than parameres. <b>Geographic distribution</b> Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Venezuela. First record from Quindío Department. <b>Material examined.</b> Colombia, Quindío Department, La Tebaida Municipality, Pizamal neighborhood, 04°24ʹ 46.9ʺ N, 075°50ʹ34.2ʺ W, 1031 m a.m.s.l., 2015-II-04, L.M. González coll., CIUQ 10685–10690 (57 males, 42 females). Montenegro Municipality, El Gigante neighborhood, 04°34ʹ22.3ʺ N, 075°51ʹ11.6ʺ W, 1060 m a.m.s.l., 2007-VIII-30, A.L García coll., CIUQ 13280 (3 males, 1 female). Calarcá Municipality, Planadas Altas neighborhood, 04°27ʹ05.4ʺ N, 075°39ʹ22.3ʺ W, 2900 m a.m.s.l., 2007-IX-15, A.L García coll., CIUQ 13281 (1 male). <b>Remarks.</b> Specimens were found in marshes and stream margins on stony and muddy substrates and on submerged vegetation.
description: Published as part of <i>Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Liza M., García-Hernández, Andrea L. &amp; Clarkson, Bruno, 2017, First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindío Department, Colombia, pp. 605-620 in Check List 13 (5)</i> on page 613, DOI: 10.15560/13.5.605
description: {"references": ["Chevrolat A (1834 [1833 - 35]) Coleopteres du Mexique. 3 e Fascicule. Impr. de G. Silbermann, Strasbourg. 200 pp.", "Castelnau FLN (1840) Histoire naturelle des insectes coleopteres, avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articules, par M. Brulle. Histoire naturelle des Animaux articules: annelides, crustaces, arachnides, Myriapodes et Insectes. Tome 2: 1 - 563. P. Dumenil, Paris. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 35290", "Orchymont A d' (1921 b) Le genre Tropisternus I (Col. Hydrophilidae). Annales de la Societe entomologique de Belgique 61: 349 - 374.", "Orchymont A d' (1943) Faune du Nord-Est Bresilien (recoltes du Dr O. Schubart). Palpicornia. Memoires du Musee royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique 28 (2): 1 - 85."]}