TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the whirligig beetle genus Gyrinus of Venezuela (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae)
AU - Gustafson, Grey T.
AU - Short, Andrew E.Z.
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We wish to thank our collaborators who assisted with fieldwork including Mauricio García (MALUZ), Luis Joly (MIZA), Jesus Camacho (MALUZ), Quintin Arias (MIZA), and Bob Sites. Thanks to the loaning institutions, their curators, and collection managers. Special thanks are due to César Benetti for images of the holotype of G. amazonicus and to Antoine Mantilleri for additional images of the syntype of G. opalinus. Jiří Hájek is warmly thanked for his extra effort correcting and improving this manuscript. This research was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation grant DEB-0816904 to AEZS and a NIH IRACDA postdoctoral fellowship to GTG (5K12GM063651).
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PY - 2017/12/31
Y1 - 2017/12/31
N2 - The Venezuelan species of the genus Gyrinus Geoffroy, 1762 are reviewed (Gyrinidae: Gyrininae: Gyrinini). The Venezuelan Gyrinus fauna is found to be comprised of nine species distributed among the subgenera Neogyrinus Hatch, 1926 and Oreogyrinus Ochs, 1935, although Gyrinus (Oreogyrinus) colombicus Régimbart, 1883 is known from imprecisely localized and potentially mislabeled specimens and the species presumably does not occur in Venezuela. Three new species are described: G. (Oreogyrinus) vinolentus sp. nov. from the Andes, and G. (Oreogyrinus) iridinus sp. nov. and G. (Neogyrinus) sabanensis sp. nov., from the Guiana Shield region. Two new synonymies are established: G. amazonicus Ochs, 1958 syn. nov. is synonymized with G. guianus Ochs, 1935, and G. racenisi Ochs, 1953 syn. nov. is synonymized with G. ovatus Aubé, 1838. Gyrinus (Oreogyrinus) feminalis Mouchamps, 1957, described from Venezuela from two female syntypes only, is considered as species inquirendum, as the types were not found. For each species a dorsal habitus, illustration of male and female genitalia, and distribution map are provided. A key and checklist for the Venezuelan Gyrinus species is included.
AB - The Venezuelan species of the genus Gyrinus Geoffroy, 1762 are reviewed (Gyrinidae: Gyrininae: Gyrinini). The Venezuelan Gyrinus fauna is found to be comprised of nine species distributed among the subgenera Neogyrinus Hatch, 1926 and Oreogyrinus Ochs, 1935, although Gyrinus (Oreogyrinus) colombicus Régimbart, 1883 is known from imprecisely localized and potentially mislabeled specimens and the species presumably does not occur in Venezuela. Three new species are described: G. (Oreogyrinus) vinolentus sp. nov. from the Andes, and G. (Oreogyrinus) iridinus sp. nov. and G. (Neogyrinus) sabanensis sp. nov., from the Guiana Shield region. Two new synonymies are established: G. amazonicus Ochs, 1958 syn. nov. is synonymized with G. guianus Ochs, 1935, and G. racenisi Ochs, 1953 syn. nov. is synonymized with G. ovatus Aubé, 1838. Gyrinus (Oreogyrinus) feminalis Mouchamps, 1957, described from Venezuela from two female syntypes only, is considered as species inquirendum, as the types were not found. For each species a dorsal habitus, illustration of male and female genitalia, and distribution map are provided. A key and checklist for the Venezuelan Gyrinus species is included.
KW - Aquatic beetles
KW - Coleoptera
KW - Distribution
KW - Gyrinidae
KW - Neotropical region
KW - New species
KW - New synonyms
KW - Taxonomy
KW - Venezuela
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U2 - 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0087
DO - 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0087
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85039983348
SN - 0374-1036
VL - 57
SP - 479
EP - 520
JO - Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
JF - Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
IS - 2
ER -