''Hydroporus artvinensis'' is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s native to the Doğu Karadeniz Dağlari in Turkey. Males of this species can be distinguished from ''
H. toledoi'', ''
H. cagrankaya'', ''
H. lundbergi'' and ''
H. sivrikaya'' by the shape of their
aedeagi
An aedeagus (plural aedeagi) is a reproductive organ of male arthropods through which they secrete sperm from the testes during copulation (zoology), copulation with a female. It can be thought of as the insect equivalent of a mammal's penis, t ...
. Its pro- and
mesotarsi are provided with
sucker cups.
[Fery, Hans, and Oemer Koeksal Erman. "Five new species of the longulus-group of Hydroporus Clairville, 1806 from north-eastern Turkey (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)." Zootaxa 2033 (2009): 1–12.]
References
Further reading
*Topkara, Esat Tarık, and M. Ruşen Ustaoğlu. "Investigations on the Aquatic Coleoptera (Classis: Insecta) Fauna of some Mountain Lakes in the Eastern Black Sea Range (Turkey)."
External links
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Dytiscidae
Beetles described in 2009
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