Mesoceration er en slekt av palpebiller som lever i og ved ferskvann og brakkvann.
Utseende Små (ca. 1,5 millimeter), avlange, blankt brunlige til svarte palpebiller, palper og bein rødlige. Hodet er tilsmalnende forover, med utstående fasettøyne og lange maksillarpalper. Pronotum er avrundet sekskantet. Dekkvingene har fine punkstriper.
Levevis Palpebillene lever i eller ved vann. Denen slekten finnes på såkalte hygropetriske habitater, der vann risler over steiner.
Utbredelse Slekten er emdemisk for Kapp-regionen i Sør-Afrika.
Systematisk inndeling
Ordenen biller, Coleoptera Underordenen Polyphaga Overfamilien åtsel- og rovbiller, Staphylinoidea (litt usikker plassering) Familien palpebiller, Hydraenidae Underfamilien Prosthetopinae Perkins, 1994 Stammen Parasthetopini Slekten Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 Mesoceration abstrictum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994Perkins, P. D. & J. Balfour-Browne (1994) A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: Zoology, (N.S.) 77: 1-159. Mesoceration apicalum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration barriotum Perkins, 2008Perkins, P. D. (2008) New species and new collection records of Prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1864: 1-124. Mesoceration bicurvum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration bispinum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration brevigranum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration caniplenum Bilton, 2015Bilton, D. T. (2015) New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3972 (4): 495-520. Mesoceration capense Janssens, 1967Janssens, E. (1967) Sur quelques Hydraenidae de la faune australe. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 43 (11): 1-13. Mesoceration castaneum Bilton, 2017Bilton, D. T. (2017) Water beetles from the Bokkeveld Plateau: a semi-arid hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Zootaxa 4268 (2): 191-214. Mesoceration chasmum Bilton, 2017 Mesoceration compressum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration concavum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration concessum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration curvosum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration disjunctum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration dissonum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration distinctum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration drakensbergense Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration durabile Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration endroedyi Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration explanatum Bilton & Mlambo, 2019Bilton, D.T. og Mlambo, M.C. (2019) Two new Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from the Piketberg, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 4555 (2): 268-274. Mesoceration foggoi Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration fusciceps Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration fuscipes Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration granulovestum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration hantam Bilton, 2014Bilton, D. T. (2014) Two new water beetles from the Hantamsberg, an inselberg in the Northern Cape of South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3887 (4): 471-480. Mesoceration helmei Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration hirsutum Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration incarinum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration integrum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration jucundum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration languidum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration littlekarroo Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration longipennis Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration maluti Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration natalensis Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration pallidum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration periscopum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration piceum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration piketbergense Bilton & Mlambo, 2019 Mesoceration rapidensis Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration repandum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration reticulatum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration rivulare Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration rubidum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration rufescens Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration rugulosum Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration sabulosum Bilton, 2017 Mesoceration semicarinulum Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration sewefonteinense Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration sinclairi Bilton, 2015 Mesoceration splendorum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration sulcatulum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration tabulare Perkins, 2008 Mesoceration transvaalense Janssens, 1971Janssens, E. (1971) Nouvelles notes sur les Coléoptères Hydraenidae (Nº 27). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique, 107: 142-148. Mesoceration truncatum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 Mesoceration umbrosum Perkins, 2008
Referanser
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