Sternolophus inconspicuus explained
Sternolophus inconspicuus, is a species of water scavenger beetle. It ranges from India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia, north to Korea and Japan.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Description
This large oval species has a body size of about 10.2 mm.[6] Elytra with four distinct rows of systematic punctures. Antennae with nine segments. Prosternum highly tectiform and medially carinate. On the base of middle and hind femora, there is a hydrofuge pubescence as well as in abdominal ventrites. Metasternal keel glabrous and produced into a short spine posteriorly. Mesosternal keel has a small notch. There is an apical emargination on the posterior margin of fifth ventrite.[7]
Notes and References
- Web site: Sheth . Sayali D. . Padhye . Anand D. . Ghate . Hemant V. . 2019 . Factors affecting aquatic beetle communities of Northern Western Ghats of India (Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera) . 2021-07-31 . Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology . 1 . en . 10.1051/limn/2018030.
- Web site: Sternolophus inconspicuus (Nietner, 1856) . 2021-07-31 . www.gbif.org . en.
- Web site: Sternolophus inconspicuus . 2021-07-31 . www.kaefer-der-welt.de.
- Web site: Nasserzadeh . Hiva . Komarek . Albrecht . 2017-06-26 . Taxonomic revision of the water scavenger beetle genus Sternolophus Solier, 1834 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) . 2021-07-31 . Zootaxa . 201 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.1.
- Web site: A remarkable collection of aquatic and riparian beetles from Xiachayu, Zayü County, southeastern Tibet (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Heteroceridae, Limnichidae) . 2021-07-30 . Koleopterologische Rundschau 82 65–69 Wien, September 2012.
- Web site: Sternolophus inconspicuus . 2021-07-31 . www.kaefer-der-welt.de.
- Web site: Freshwater Macroinvertebrates in Hong Kong . 2021-07-31 . www.biosch.hku.hk.
