Spercheus cerisyi Guerin-Meneville , 1842

Bird, Matthew S., Bilton, David T. & Perissinotto, Renzo, 2017, Diversity and distribution of polyphagan water beetles (Coleoptera) in the Lake St Lucia system, South Africa, ZooKeys 656, pp. 51-84 : 69

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.656.11622

publication LSID

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scientific name

Spercheus cerisyi Guerin-Meneville , 1842
status

 

Spercheus cerisyi Guerin-Meneville, 1842 View in CoL

Synonyms.

Spercheus crenaticollis Régimbart, 1906, Sphercheus [!] capicola Péringuey, 1829, Spercheus cerisyi var. diminutus Hebauer, 1997

Remarks.

Ponds and other lentic waters, in vegetation.

Distribution.

Widespread to Western, Central and Eastern Africa and Madagascar; reaching the Palaearctic in Egypt, Iraq and Israel.

St Lucia records.

Recorded at Western Shores, Eastern Shores and False Bay in January/February 2015. Previously recorded at Dukandlovu by SANC - years not specified.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Spercheidae

Genus

Spercheus