Ochthebius hesperides Balfour-Browne, 1976
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ochthebius hespérides Balfour-Browne, 1976 [used by Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025]
Conservation Status
Last record: 1976 or later (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025; Greń et al., 2026)
Rediscovered on: 23 March 2025 (Greń et al., 2026)
Previously regarded as Extinct (Báez & Oromí, 2005; Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025).
Distribution & Habitat
Sal, Cape Verde Islands, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Balfour-Browne, J. (1976). Two new Hydraenidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinoidea) from the Cape Verde Islands. Notulae Entomologicae LVI: 29-30.
Other references:
Báez, M. and Oromí, P. (2005). Arthropoda, pp. 60-100. In: Arechavaleta, M., Zurita, N., Marrero, M. C. and Martín, J. L. (eds.). (2005). Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde Hongos, Plantas y Animals Terrestres) 2005. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Ordenación Territorial, Gobiemo de Canarias. 155 pp.
Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]
Greń, Czesław, Komosiński, Karol, Lasoń, Andrzej and Miłkowski, Marek. (2026). First records of Paracymus aeneus (Germar, 1823) and Enochrus segmentinotatus (Kuwert, 1888) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from the Cabo Verde Archipelago and confirmation of the occurrence of Ochthebius hesperides Balfour-Browne, 1976 (Hydraenidae) on Sal Island. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom Entomology 35: 1-7.
Jäch, M. A. (1991). Revision of the Palearctic species of the genus Ochthebius VII. The foveolatus group (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 61: 61-94.
Silfverberg, H. (1987). List of the insect types in the Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki. 4. Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea. - Acta Entomologica Fennica 48: 41-45.