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Colossochares
Genus of beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colossochares is an Afrotropical genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae represented by two described species.[1]
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Taxonomy
The genus Colossochares was created in 2021 to group two species of Afrotropical water scavenger beetles in the subfamily Acidocerinae that were formerly placed in the genus Helochares.[1]
Evidence for separating these species from Helochares and constituting a new genus was provided by molecular data.[2]
Description
Relatively large beetles (8.5–14.0 mm), dark brown in coloration, very convex in lateral view. A diagnosis of the genus was presented by Girón and Short.[1]
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