A new species of Haliplus Latreille, 1802 from Cuba (Coleoptera: Haliplidae)

ABSTRACT

Haliplus alberti sp. n. is described, based on three specimens collected in Pan de Guajaibon, San Juan de Sagüa, Pinar del Río, Cuba. Morphologically, the new species is similar to H. pseudofasciatus Wallis, 1933 and H. mutchleri Wallis, 1933, both from Florida (USA). The beetles were collected in a permanent lagoon with abundant aquatic vegetation, muddy bottom and macrophytes near the banks. Seven species of Haliplus are now known from Cuba.

http://zoobank.org/urn:zoobank.org:pub:3CE6BA24-9D20-4A4D-8C8A-51687B750244

KEYWORDS:

• Coleoptera
• crawling water beetles
• Haliplus
• taxonomy
• new species
• Cuba

Acknowledgements

We thank John H. Epler (Research Associate, Florida State Collection of Arthropods) for his help in the examination of Florida specimens and anonymous reviewers for their critical review of the manuscript, and valuable comments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Ref 3.2 - 1161268 - CUB - GFHERMES-P) through a HERMES fellowship to Y. S. Megna.