Austrolimnius (Telmatelmis) halffteri Hinton

Arce-Pérez, Roberto & Reynoso-Velasco, Daniel, 2025, A new species of Austrolimnius Carter & Zeck from east-central Mexico and new state records for species of the genus in the country (Coleoptera: Elmidae), Zootaxa 5633 (3), pp. 541-552 : 549-550

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.7
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scientific name	Austrolimnius (Telmatelmis) halffteri Hinton
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Austrolimnius (Telmatelmis) halffteri Hinton View in CoL

( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 )

Austrolimnius halffteri View in CoL : Hinton, 1971: 94, 97 (nomen nudum).

Austrolimnius halffteri Hinton 1972: 137 View in CoL (original description).

Published records. Mexico: Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero ( Hinton, 1971, 1972; Santiago-Fragoso & Spangler 2000). Hinton (1971) reported the species from Colima and Guerrero a year before the species original description was published. Santiago-Fragoso & Spangler (2000) reported the state of Chiapas without details of the specific locality(ies), and no specimens of this species were found at the CNIN, to which Santiago-Fragoso was associated while working at UNAM.

Type locality. Río Acapulquillo near Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico .

Distribution. This species is known to occur only in Mexico. The three known specific localities from Colima and Guerrero, all below 500 m. a.s.l., are respectively in the central and southern parts of the country ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 ), in the western Pacific Lowlands biogeographic province.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Elmidae
Genus	Austrolimnius