First records of Cercyon hungaricus Endrody-Younga, 1967 from Slovakia, notes on its distribution and biology, and fixation of its type specimens (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)
2009
Abstract
Distributional data of the Pannonian endemic species Cercyon hungaricus are summarized and mapped, including of first records of the species from Slovakia and additional records from Hungary. The species is diagnosed and the diagnostic characters are illustrated.
Based on data made available through recently collected specimens, the species is considered to inhabit leaf litter and plant debris on the shores of various kinds of standing water, but to avoid habitats that are too wet or seasonally submerged. A lectotype is designated in order to clarify a complicated situation arising out of three previously published “descriptions” of the species.