Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824)

Majka, Christopher, 2008, The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 239-260 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.2.25

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793194

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scientific name

Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824)
status

 

Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824)

Kings Co.: Woodville Mills, 23.VII.2001, C.G. Majka, under stone beside small stream, (1, CGMC) .

Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island, this species prefers running water habitats in places protected from currents ( Smetana 1988).

Smetana A (1988) Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142: 1 - 316.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Hydrobius