A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae, Megasternini) with a discussion on the Cercyon subgenus Acycreon
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10380417" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10380417 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00023272:_____/18:10134150
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.14621" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.14621</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.14621" target="_blank" >10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.14621</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A new genus of coprophagous water scavenger beetle from Africa (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae, Megasternini) with a discussion on the Cercyon subgenus Acycreon
Original language description
A new genus of coprophagous beetle, Evanesternum gen. n. (Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae: Megasternini), is described in order to accommodate Cercyon (Acycreon) pulsatus d'Orchymont, 1937 from the Republic of South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A detailed description is provided along with habitus photographs, line drawings and SEM micrographs of relevant diagnostic characters. The new genus possesses the tribal synapomorphies of Megasternini but bears several unique morphological characters which are discussed in detail. The morphology of the remaining three species classified in the subgenus Acycreon d'Orchymont, 1942 (i.e. C. punctiger Knisch, 1921, C. collarti d'Orchymont, 1942 and C. apiciflavus Hebauer, 2002), is illustrated in order to provide evidence that Acycreon is an assemblage of morphologically dissimilar and likely not related species. An identification key to the Megasternini genera and subgenera known from the Republic of South Africa is presented.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
African Invertebrates
ISSN
1681-5556
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
ZA - SOUTH AFRICA
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
1-23
UT code for WoS article
000422713400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041076009