Hydrochus piroei Makhan, 1992

Perkins, Philip D., 2021, Taxonomy of Central American water beetles in the genus Hydrochus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera: Hydrochidae), Zootaxa 4974 (3), pp. 459-503 : 478

Hydrochus piroei Makhan

Fig. 33

Hydrochus piroei Makhan, 1992: 97 .

Originally described from Suriname, and recently reported from Venezuela ( Perkins, 2019c) and Ecuador ( Perkins, 2020b), the following specimen records are from Panama. Images of the habitus and male genitalia, and detailed description of the male genitalia of a specimen from Venezuela are given in Perkins (2019c).

Material examined (13): Panama: Barro Colorado Island , 24.v.1964, leg. WD & SS Duckworth (1 NMNH) ; Trinidad River , 21.v.1911, leg. August Busck (1 NMNH) ; Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island , 5.vi.1977, leg. Nivel (1 NMNH) ; Panama, Tocumen , 16-19.vi.1970, leg. Diego Navas (2 NMNH) ; same locality, 13-17.vii.1970, leg. Diego Navas (1 CNC) ; same locality, 7-11.ix.1970, leg. Diego Navas (7 NMNH) .

Remarks. I have examined the holotype, including the male genitalia, of H. piroei .

Figures

FIGURES 31–33. Geographical distribution maps.