Quadriops
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| Genus: | Quadriops García, 2001
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Quadriops is a Neotropical genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by six described species.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Quadriops was described for the first time by Michael Hansen in 1999.[2]
It belongs in the subfamily Acidocerinae. After a revision of the genus, it now contains six described species from Brazil (Amazonas), Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.[1][3]
Description
[edit]Small to tiny beetles (1.6–2.6 mm), orange brown to dark brown in coloration, with eyes fully divided in dorsal and ventral faces; short maxillary palps. The elytra are laterally explanate and the elytral punctation may present well defined elytral striae. A complete diagnosis was presented by Girón and Short.[1]
Habitat
[edit]Quadriops is the only genus of Neotropical acidocerines known only from terrestrial habitats, including rotten fruits, sap flows on freshly cut trees, and in the refuse piles of leafcutter ants.[1][3]
Species
[edit]- Quadriops acroreius Girón and Short, 2017 [3]
- Quadriops clusia Girón and Short, 2017 [3]
- Quadriops dentatus Hansen, 1999 [2]
- Quadriops depressus Hansen, 1999 [2]
- Quadriops reticulatus Hansen, 1999 [2]
- Quadriops similaris Hansen, 1999 [2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2021-06-18). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8233300. PMID 34228772.
- ^ a b c d e Hansen, Michael (1999-01-01). "Fifteen new genera of Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera), with remarks on the generic classification of the family". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 30 (2): 121–172. doi:10.1163/187631200X00228. ISSN 1876-312X.
- ^ a b c d Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2017-03-10). "Revision of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Quadriops Hansen, 1999 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)". ZooKeys (705): 115–141. doi:10.3897/zookeys.705.19815. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 5674056. PMID 29118615.