The neglected diversity of the Ochthebius fauna from Eastern Atlantic and Central and Western Mediterranean coastal rockpools (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)
[EN] We describe four species of Ochthebius subgenus Cobalius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from coastal rockpools of the western Palaearctic Region: O. anzar sp. nov. (south Morocco, plus a possible specimen from Lanzarote, Canary Islands), O. cortomaltese sp. nov. (Malta), O. evae sp. nov. (Atlantic c...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de León |
| Repositorio: | BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:buleria.unileon.es:10612/27262 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://link-springer-com.usal.idm.oclc.org/article/10.1007/s13127-020-00463-y https://hdl.handle.net/10612/27262 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ecología. Medio ambiente Zoología Ochthebius Cobalius Rockpools Coastal habitats Convergence Cryptic lineages Macaronesia Morocco Cabo Verde Malta 2413.03 Ecología de Los Insectos 2413.06 Taxonomía de Los Insectos 2413.04 Morfología de Los Insectos 2505.01 Biogeografía |
| Sumario: | [EN] We describe four species of Ochthebius subgenus Cobalius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae) from coastal rockpools of the western Palaearctic Region: O. anzar sp. nov. (south Morocco, plus a possible specimen from Lanzarote, Canary Islands), O. cortomaltese sp. nov. (Malta), O. evae sp. nov. (Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mediterranean coast of south Spain), and O. gorgadensis sp. nov. (Ilha de Santiago, Cabo Verde). A molecular phylogeny of all described species of Cobalius recovered three clades: (1) O. serratus Rosenhauer, 1864 as sister to the newly defined O. algicola group, including most of the Macaronesian species of Cobalius (O. algicola Wollaston, 1871 from Madeira, O. freyi d’Orchymont, 1941 from Azores, O. lanthanus Ribera and Foster 2018 from Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, and O. balfourbrownei Jäch, 1989 and O. gorgadensis sp. nov. from Cabo Verde); (2) O. anzar sp. nov. as sister to the species of the newly defined O. biltoni group (O. biltoni Jäch and Delgado, 2017 from Sicily, plus O. evae sp. nov. and O. cortomaltese sp. nov.); and (3) the newly defined O. lejolisii group, including O. lejolisii Mulsant and Rey, 1861 (Atlantic coast from south Morocco to the British Islands) plus O. subinteger Mulsant and Rey, 1861 (western Mediterranean), O. adriaticus Reitter, 1886 and its subspecies, O. celatus Jäch, 1989 and O. asper Sahlberg, 1900 stat. rev., previously considered a synonym of O. subinteger (all from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean). We note the strong intrapopulational morphological variation and the contrasting lack of consistent diagnostic characters between populations, despite the deep genetic divergence between lineages found within some species. We also discuss the widespread evolutionary convergence in beetles living in coastal habitats, sometimes in different genera or even families |
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