A second species of Protistolophus Short from Peru (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae)

A second species of the enigmatic hydrophilid genus Protistolophus Short, 2010 is described from the Cordillera Escalera in northwest Peru (Departamento de San Martín). Most specimens were collected in association with brooklets in primary forest at ca. 1300 m a.s.l. Some of the characters originally used to define the genus Protistolophus appear no longer valid after discovery of the new species. Most noteworthy is probably the absence of an apical emargination of the fifth visible ventrite, while present in P. spangleri Short, 2010, the only other know species of the genus.