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      A review of the Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles

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          The representatives of the genus Cercyon Leach occurring in the Greater Antilles are reviewed. Ten species are recorded, of which five are described here as new: C. gimmeli sp. n. (Dominican Republic), C. armatipenis sp. n. (Dominican Republic), C. taino sp. n. (Dominican Republic), C. sklodowskae sp. n. (Jamaica) and C. spiniventris sp. n. (Dominican Republic). Diagnoses and detailed distributional data are also provided for C. floridanus Horn, 1890 (distributed in southeastern United States of America and Cayman Islands), C. insularis Chevrolat, 1863 (endemic to the Antilles) C. praetextatus (Say, 1825) (widely distributed in the New World incl. Greater Antilles), C. quisquilius (Linnaeus, 1761) (an adventive species of Paleartic origin) and C. nigriceps (Marshall, 1802) (an adventive species probably of Oriental origin). Cercyon armatipenis , C. gimmeli , C. taino form a group of closely related species only distinguishable by male genitalia and DNA sequences. A key to the Great Antillean Cercyon is provided and important diagnostic characters are illustrated. The larvae of C. insularis and C. taino were associated with adults using COI barcode sequences, illustrated and diagnosed. Full occurrence data, additional images and COI barcode sequences were submitted to open access on-line depositories in an effort to provide access to complete data.

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                Journal
                Zookeys
                Zookeys
                ZooKeys
                ZooKeys
                Pensoft Publishers
                1313-2989
                1313-2970
                2017
                21 June 2017
                : 681
                : 39-93
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic
                [2 ] Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1, CZ-193 00 Praha, Czech Republic
                [3 ] Pensoft Publishers, Prof. Georgi Zlatarski Street 12, 1700 Sofia, Bulgaria
                [4 ] Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela ( arriagavarelae@ 123456natur.cuni.cz )

                Academic editor: M. Michat

                Article
                10.3897/zookeys.681.12522
                5523880
                c07af329-2316-4b5e-8fdf-a5a8fcd34814
                Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Matthias Seidel, Albert Deler-Hernández, Viktor Senderov, Martin Fikáček

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 3 March 2017
                : 21 May 2017
                Categories
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                Animal science & Zoology
                megasternini,morphology,taxonomy,new species,caribbean,coi,dna barcode,larva,biodiversity informatics,animalia,coleoptera,hydrophilidae

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