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Here a combination of morphological and molecular data is presented to review this newly found <jats:italic>Tobochares<\/jats:italic> diversity. Fifteen new species are described from South America, bringing the total number of known species to 25: <jats:italic>Tobochares akoerio<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Suriname), <jats:italic>T. arawak<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Guyana), <jats:italic>T. anthonyae<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Venezuela: Bol\u00edvar), <jats:italic>T. atures<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold>, (Venezuela: Amazonas), <jats:italic>T. benettii<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Brazil: Amazonas), <jats:italic>T. canaima<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Venezuela: Bol\u00edvar), <jats:italic>T. communis<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Brazil: Amap\u00e1 and Roraima, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela: Bol\u00edvar), <jats:italic>T. fusus<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Brazil: Amap\u00e1, French Guiana), <jats:italic>T. goias<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Brazil: Goi\u00e1s), <jats:italic>T. kappel<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Suriname), <jats:italic>T. kolokoe<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Suriname), <jats:italic>T. luteomargo<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Venezuela: Bol\u00edvar), <jats:italic>T. microps<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Suriname), <jats:italic>T. pemon<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Venezuela: Bol\u00edvar), and <jats:italic>T. romanoae<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold> (Brazil: Roraima). Both morphological and molecular analyses support four clades within the genus, which are here diagnosed and described as species groups. New distributional records are provided for <jats:italic>T. kusad<\/jats:italic> Kohlenberg &amp;amp; Short, 2017 and <jats:italic>T. sipaliwini<\/jats:italic> Short &amp;amp; Kadosoe, 2011, both of which are recorded from Brazil for the first time. Previously restricted to the Guiana Shield region of South America, the distributional range of the genus is now broadly expanded to include localities as far south as the central Brazilian state of Goi\u00e1s. Consistent with the biology of the previously described species, almost all the new species described here are associated with seepage and wet rock habitats. Remarkably, one species, <jats:italic>T. fusus<\/jats:italic><jats:bold>sp. nov.<\/jats:bold>, was collected in both seepage habitats as well as in the rotting fruits of <jats:italic>Clusia<\/jats:italic> Linnaeus (Clusiaceae), making it one of the few known acidocerines with terrestrial habits outside of the genus <jats:italic>Quadriops<\/jats:italic> Hansen, 1999. High-resolution images of most species are included, as well as a key to species groups, species, and habitat photographs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.1019.59881","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,22]],"date-time":"2021-02-22T17:51:30Z","timestamp":1614016290000},"page":"93-140","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Review of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Tobochares Short &amp;amp; Garc\u00eda, 2007 (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae): new lineages, new species, and new records"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"1019","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0851-6883","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Jennifer C.","family":"Gir\u00f3n","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrew Edward Z.","family":"Short","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"59881_B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.705.19815"},{"key":"59881_B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.768.24423"},{"key":"59881_B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.669.11773"},{"key":"59881_B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/molbev\/mst024"},{"key":"59881_B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/molbev\/msu300"},{"key":"59881_B6","first-page":"79","article-title":"Chapter 4. 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