Check List 17(5): 1295-1298, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1295
First records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) in Taiwan (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydrovatini)
Liang-Jong Wang‡, Lars Hendrich§, Michael Balke|‡ Division of Forest Protection, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan§ Zoologische Staatssammlung, Muenchen, Germany| Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munchen, Germany
Corresponding author: Lars Hendrich ( hendrich1@aol.com ) Academic editor: Kirill Makarov © Liang-Jong Wang, Lars Hendrich, Michael Balke. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Wang L-J, Hendrich L, Balke M (2021) First records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) in Taiwan (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydrovatini). Check List 17(5): 1295-1298. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1295 |  |
Abstract
We provide the first records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) from Taiwan. They are otherwise widespread in Southeast Asia. The habitats of both species and the associated diving beetle fauna are briefly described. Altogether eight species of the genus Hydrovatus are now recorded from Taiwan, raising the number of Taiwanese dytiscid species to 68.
Keywords
Aquatic Coleoptera, Hydrovatus, Taiwan fauna, new records