Review of the Korean Elmidae (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea) with descriptions of three new species

Abstract

The Korean species of the riffle beetle family Elmidae are revised. Thirteen species belonging to nine genera are recognized including three new species, Grouvellinus aerosus sp. n., Zaitzeviaria kyungseoki sp. n., and Z. obesa sp. n., and one unidentified species of Ordobrevia Sanderson, 1953 Sanderson, M.W. (1953), ‘A Revision of the Nearctic Genera of Elmidae (Coleoptera)’, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 26, 148–163. [Google Scholar]. Leptelmis coreana Jung and Bae, 2012 Jung, S.W., and Bae, Y.J. (2012), ‘Riffle Beetle genus Leptelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in Korea with Description of Two new Species’, Animal Cells and systems, 16, 254–259.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] and L. ochra Jung and Bae, 2012 Jung, S.W., and Bae, Y.J. (2012), ‘Riffle Beetle genus Leptelmis (Coleoptera: Elmidae) in Korea with Description of Two new Species’, Animal Cells and systems, 16, 254–259.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] are synonymized with L. gracilis gracilis Sharp, 1888 Sharp, D. (1888), ‘XXXI. Description of Some new Coleoptera from Japan’, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 242–245.[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]. Four species, Macronychus levanidovae Lafer, 1980 Lafer, G.S. (1980), ‘Zhuki-Pritsepyshi (Coleoptera, Dryopidae) Dal'nego Vostoka SSSR’, Fauna presnykh vod Dal'nego Vostoka, 44–53. [Google Scholar], Stenelmis koreana Satô, 1978 Satô, M. (1978), ‘Stenelmis Dufour Species of Korea (Coleoptera, Elminthidae)’, Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 70, 147–149. [Google Scholar], S. cf. montana Zhang and Yang, 1995 Zhang, Z.H., and Ding, W. (1995), ‘Two new Species and a new Subspecies of Elmidae (Coleoptera: Dryopoidea) from China’, Entomotaxonomia, 17, 15–19. (In Chinese) [Google Scholar], and Zaitzevia tsushimana Nomura, 1963 Nomura, S. (1963), ‘Notes on the Dryopoidea (Coleoptera) IV’, Tôhô-Gakuhô, 13, 41–56. [Google Scholar], are newly recorded from South Korea. Descriptions, type information, synonymies, illustrations of diagnostic characters and geographical variation, a checklist, and a key to the adults of the Korean species are provided.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:738109DF-D49D-4398-96B2-FC5863ED76EF