©Wiener Coleopterologenverein (WCV), download unter www.biologiezentrum.at 68 Koleopt. Rdsch. 78 (2008) Koleopterologische Rundschau 78 69–194 Wien, Juli 2008 VAZIRANI, T.G. 1969: Contribution to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) 2. A review of the subfamilies Noterinae, Laccophilinae, Dytiscinae and Hydroporinae (in part) from India. – Oriental Insects 2 (3–4): 221–341. Revision of the Haliplidae of the VAZIRANI, T.G. 1970: Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). 10. On a collection of Dytiscidae from Goa. – Oriental Insects 4: 441–446. Neotropical Region including Mexico VAZIRANI, T.G. 1972: Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). 13. A collection of (Coleoptera: Haliplidae) Dytiscidae from Nilgiri Hills, South India, with the description of a new species. – Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Calcutta 25: 117–122. B.J. van VONDEL & P.J. SPANGLER VAZIRANI, T.G. 1974: Two new species of Dytiscidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from India. – Indian Museum Bulletin 7 (1) (1972): 16–20. VAZIRANI, T.G. 1975: Some new records of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Tamil Nadu (India). – Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 1 (2): 20–21. Abstract VAZIRANI, T.G. 1977a: Catalogue of Oriental Dytiscidae. – Records of the Zoological Survey of India The species of the family Haliplidae (Coleoptera) occurring in the Neotropical Region (including Miscellaneous Publication Occasional Paper 6 (1976): 1–111. Mexico) are revised. Two genera, Haliplus LATREILLE and Peltodytes RÉGIMBART, and 53 species of Haliplidae are now recognized in the region of which the following 18 species are here described as VAZIRANI, T.G. 1977b: Some new records of Dytiscidae from South Gujarat. – Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 3 (1): 41–45. new: Haliplus colombiensis, H. costaricanus, H. drechseli, H. elsaltous, H. grandis, H. gravidoides, H. heppneri, H. langleyi, H. megapunctatus, H. mesoamericanus, H. mexicanus, H. minimus, H. niese- VAZIRANI, T.G. 1977c: Notes on a collection of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Maharashtra, with ri, H. tantoyucanus, H. tocumenus, H. triplehorni, H. unicarinatus, and H. youngi. Lectotypes are here description of a new species. – Records of the Zoological Survey of India 73 (1–4): 123–133. designated for H. brandeni WEHNCKE, H. curtulus SHARP, H. fuscipennis GERMAIN, H. gravidus AUBÉ, H. havaniensis WEHNCKE, H. maculicollis ZIMMERMANN, H. nigrolineatus WEHNCKE, H. VAZIRANI, T.G. 1981: Collection of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Madhya Pradesh. – Bulletin of the obconicus RÉGIMBART, H. oblongus ZIMMERMANN, H. ornatipennis ZIMMERMANN, H. robustus Zoological Survey of India 3 (3): 257–265. SHARP, H. testaceus ZIMMERMANN, H. thoracicus ZIMMERMANN, and H. tumidus LECONTE. Only WEHNCKE, E. 1876: Zehn neue Hydrocanthus-Arten. – Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 20 (2): 221– adults are treated in detail, because the knowledge of the immature stages of the Neotropical Halipli- 223. dae is very poor. Identification-keys to the species are given. All species are (re)described and illustra- ted and their distributions mapped. Haliplus nigrolineatus was described from Uruguay, but it is iden- WEWALKA, G. 1982: Results of the Austrian-Indian Hydrobiological mission 1976, to the Andaman tical with the Australian H. testudo and therefore excluded from the Neotropical fauna. Islands. Part IX, Dytiscidae. – Koleopterologische Rundschau 56: 115–125. WEWALKA, G. 1992: Die Canthydrus flavus (Motschulsky)-Gruppe aus Südostasien (Coleoptera: Key words: Coleoptera, Haliplidae, Haliplus, Peltodytes, Neotropical Region, new species, revision, Noteridae). – Linzer biologische Beiträge 24 (2): 803–811. taxonomy. ZIMMERMANN, A. 1920: Pars. 71. Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae. – In: Schenkling, S. (ed.): Coleopterorum Catalogus – Berlin: W. Junk, 326 pp. ZIMMERMANN, A. 1927a: Fauna sumatrensis. (Beitrag Nr. 45). Revision der Haliplidae et Dytiscidae von Introduction Sumatra. – Supplementa Entomologica, Berlin Dahlem 16: 1–44. The first catalogue covering the Neotropical area was the worldwide treatment by GEMMINGER & ZIMMERMANN, A. 1927b: Dr. E. Mjöberg’s zoological collections from Sumatra. 7. Haliplidae and Dytiscidae. – Arkiv för Zoologi (A) 19 (13): 1–6. HAROLD (1868) mentioning only one species from this region. The catalogue of BRANDEN IMMERMANN (1885) mentioned 10 species from this region. Z (1920b) reported nine species and Mario TOLEDO he was the first one presenting a key to the Neotropical species as part of a world treatment Università degli Studi di Parma, Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale, Museo di Storia Naturale, Via (ZIMMERMANN 1924). ZIMMERMANN (1921, 1923, 1924, 1928) also described 10 new species, Farini 90, I – 43100 Parma, Italy ([email protected]) while a few later authors described another 12 species. The most recent catalogue by BLACK- WELDER (1944) reported 28 described species. Since ZIMMERMANN (1924) no revisional work has been done covering the region. Recently a key to the species of Argentina was produced by VIDAL SARMIENTO & GROSSO (1971). MORONI (1980) published a key to the species of Chile. Identification of Neotropical Haliplidae is often very problematic as many species are only known by poor descriptions lacking illustrations. The present revision is based mainly on type material examined by the first author. Furthermore, a large amount of additional specimens was studied. The majority of these specimens was collected by the second author during more than 30 years in many countries of the Neotropical Region. General information on the biology of Haliplidae was provided by VONDEL (1997). There has not been much research on biology, mode of life and lifecycle of Haliplidae in South and Central America. ©Wiener Coleopterologenverein (WCV), download unter www.biologiezentrum.at 70 Koleopt. Rdsch. 78 (2008) VONDEL & SPANGLER: Revision of the Haliplidae of the Neotropical Region including Mexico (HALIPLIDAE) 71 Very little is known about the immature stages of Neotropical species. MORONI (1989) described HABITAT DATA. Data on biology are seldom present on labels. Notes on the biology are mainly the third instar larva of Haliplus valdiviensis MORONI. VONDEL (2001) described the third instar based on additional field notes, literature and the experience of the authors. larva of H. subseriatus ZIMMERMANN. MATERIAL. Material of many institutions and private persons has been studied, including a number of primary types. Biogeography The examined material originates from the following institutions and private collections: Haliplidae are cosmopolitan. This revision deals with all the species occurring in the Neotropical faunal region. There is not a clear border between the Neotropical and the Nearctic Regions, but BMNH Natural History Museum, London, UK (M.J.D. Brendell, S.J. Hine, C. Taylor) in fact this border consists of a transition zone covering most of Mexico and probably Cuba and CA Collection M. Archangelsky, Buenos Aires, Argentina parts of the southern states of the USA. CAS California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA CB Collection M. Brojer, Vienna, Austria For practical reasons the Neotropical Realm as treated here includes Mexico and all the CC Collection J.G.M. Cuppen, Ede, The Netherlands Caribbean Islands. CE Collection G. van Ee, Haarlem, The Netherlands CF Collection J. Fresneda, Lleida, Spain Species described from the USA and obviously belonging to the Nearctic fauna, but reported CH Collection L. Hendrich, Berlin, Germany from the Neotropical Region are included in the species list, identification key and in the CJ Collection S.K. Jasper, College Station, Texas, USA distributional notes, but these species are not fully treated. CMB Collection P. Mazzoldi, Brescia, Italy CMU Collection D. Makhan, Utrecht, The Netherlands CN Collection N. Nieser, Tiel, The Netherlands Material and methods CNCI Canadian National Collections, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (A. Smetana) CS Collection A.E.Z. Short, Ithaca, New York, USA This study is based on approximately 8,000 specimens. In addition to those in the collection of CUIC Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (E.R. Hoebeke) CUO Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (S.B. Peck) the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, specimens were borrowed CV Collection B.J. van Vondel, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, The Netherlands from a number of museums and private collectors. Full label data for all specimens are given and CW Collection Wibmer, temporarily in USNM individual identification labels have been placed on all specimens examined. For consistency, CY Collection F.N. Young, now in UMMZ dates of collection were converted to day-month-year. DEI Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde, Germany (L. Zerche) HNHM Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary (O. Merkl) PREPARATION OF MALE GENITALIA. Before dissecting the aedeagus, the beetles are ISNB Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium (K. Desender) softened in water with detergent for about two hours. The aedeagus is pulled out with a small IZAC Instituto de Zoologia, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Havana, Cuba hooked needle and placed into a drop of alcohol. During dissection, the beetle has to be kept wet MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina (A.O. Bachmann) to prevent the severed aedeagus jumping out of sight. In alcohol the left and right parameres are MBUC Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela separated from the