Hydraena (Hydraenopsis) chiapa Perkins

Perkins, Philip D., 2023, New Neotropical and Nearctic species of water beetles in the genera Hydraena Kugelann and Ochthebius Leach, a key to North American genera and subgenera of the family, new distribution records, and a synopsis of ecology, behavior and morphology related to aquatic life (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 5367 (1), pp. 1-86 : 65

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A1E5321-D2BA-4B92-BA23-A7C1CDBA5723
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166692
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scientific name	Hydraena (Hydraenopsis) chiapa Perkins
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Hydraena chiapa Perkins 1980: 207 View in CoL

The new record below documents a new locality and a first record for the state of Veracruz, Mexico for this rarely collected species. The species is presently known from Chiapas and Veracruz, represented by only 11 identified specimens in museum collections.

New record: Mexico: Veracruz, Los Tuxtlas area nr. Balzapote , 15.v.1981, leg. P. J. Spangler (2 NMNH) .

References

Perkins, P. D. (1980) Aquatic beetles of the family Hydraenidae in the Western Hemisphere: classification, biogeography and inferred phylogeny (Insecta: Coleoptera). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 16, 3 - 554. [Available free from the Biodiversity Heritage Library website]