Phanoceroides
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publication ID |
https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.329.4961 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/14A20B1A-1AFC-2F53-F17D-C8933FA73112 |
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treatment provided by |
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scientific name |
Phanoceroides |
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sp. 1 |
Phanoceroides sp. 1 Figs 3, 62, 63, 64, 65
Material examined.
VENEZUELA: Amazonas State:"VENEZUELA, T.F. Amazonas; Puerto Ayacucho (40km S); El Tobogan, Caño Coromoto; 19 January 1989; leaf packs, upper riffles" "Collected by; P.J. Spangler; R.A. Faitoute & C.B. Barr" (22 specimens USNM).
Distribution and habitat.
In Venezuela, this species has only been collected at a single locality, Caño Coromoto, at El Tobogan de la Selva (Fig. 3). They were found in leaf packs and in benthic stream samples between the cascades. Additionally, specimens are known to come to UV lights.
Associated species.
No other species in Larainae has been collected with this Phanoceroides species, however, other aquatic beetles collected in the same habitat include: Tyletelmis spp., Heterelmis spp., Gyrelmis spp., Neoelmis spp., Neolimnius spp., Pilielmis spp. ( Elmidae : Elminae ), Berosus spp., Chaetarthria spp., Phaenonotum spp., Derallus spp., Oocyclus spp. ( Hydrophilidae ), Laccodytes spp. ( Dytiscidae ), Torridincollidae , Lutrochus spp. ( Lutrochidae ), Hydroscaphidae , and Meruidae .
Notes.
This species will be described in a later publication.
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