A NEW SPECIES OF OMICRUS-SHARP (COLEOPTERA, HYDROPHILIDAE) FROM PUERTO-RICO AND ITS LARVA, THE FIRST KNOWN LARVA OF OMICRINI

Authors
HANSEN M RICHARDS BA
Citation
M. Hansen et Ba. Richards, A NEW SPECIES OF OMICRUS-SHARP (COLEOPTERA, HYDROPHILIDAE) FROM PUERTO-RICO AND ITS LARVA, THE FIRST KNOWN LARVA OF OMICRINI, Systematic entomology, 23(1), 1998, pp. 1-8
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Systematic entomology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03076970
Volume
23
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1 - 8
Database
ISI
SICI code
0307-6970(1998)23:1<1:ANSOO(>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A remarkable new species of bromeliadicolous Hydrophilidae, Omicrus in gens sp.n., is described from Puerto Rico. Notes on the habitat and oc currence of the species are given. Larvae found in association with ad ult beetles are assigned to the same species and described as such. It is the first known larva of the sphaeridiine tribe Omicrini. Comparat ive notes are given to other hydrophilid larvae, particularly Sphaerid iinae, and preliminary keys to larvae are presented for known subfamil ies of Hydrophilidae and known tribes of Sphaeridiinae.