Mesoceration er en slekt av palpebiller som lever i og ved ferskvann og brakkvann.
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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.
Palpebillene lever i eller ved vann. Denen slekten finnes på såkalte hygropetriske habitater, der vann risler over steiner.
Slekten er emdemisk for Kapp-regionen i Sør-Afrika.
Treliste
- 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, 1994[2]
- Mesoceration apicalum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
- Mesoceration barriotum Perkins, 2008[3]
- Mesoceration bicurvum Perkins, 2008
- Mesoceration bispinum Perkins, 2008
- Mesoceration brevigranum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
- Mesoceration caniplenum Bilton, 2015[4]
- Mesoceration capense Janssens, 1967[5]
- Mesoceration castaneum Bilton, 2017[6]
- 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, 2019[7]
- Mesoceration foggoi Bilton, 2015
- Mesoceration fusciceps Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
- Mesoceration fuscipes Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
- Mesoceration granulovestum Perkins, 2008
- Mesoceration hantam Bilton, 2014[8]
- 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, 1971[9]
- Mesoceration truncatum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994
- Mesoceration umbrosum Perkins, 2008
Perkins, 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.
Perkins, P. D. (2008) New species and new collection records of Prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1864: 1-124.
Bilton, D. T. (2015) New species and new records of Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3972 (4): 495-520.
Janssens, E. (1967) Sur quelques Hydraenidae de la faune australe. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 43 (11): 1-13.
Bilton, 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.
Bilton, D.T. og Mlambo, M.C. (2019) Two new Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from the Piketberg, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 4555 (2): 268-274.
Bilton, 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.
Janssens, E. (1971) Nouvelles notes sur les Coléoptères Hydraenidae (Nº 27). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale d'Entomologie de Belgique, 107: 142-148.