Ochthebius (Asiobates) brevipennis Perkins

Perkins, Philip D., 2023, New Neotropical and Nearctic species of water beetles in the genera Hydraena Kugelann and Ochthebius Leach, a key to North American genera and subgenera of the family, new distribution records, and a synopsis of ecology, behavior and morphology related to aquatic life (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 5367 (1), pp. 1-86 : 72

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166755
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scientific name	Ochthebius (Asiobates) brevipennis Perkins
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The following new collection records document additional specimens from British Columbia , and represent a new depository for identified specimens of this species, for which only 35 specimens are known. The presently known distribution is Mendocino County, California northward to southern British Columbia; most collection records are from Oregon.

New records: Canada: British Columbia, Jericho Park, Main Pond , (49°16’18’’N, 123°11’42’’W), 7.xi.2006, leg. R. D. Kenner (2 UBC); GoogleMaps Jericho Park, Main Pond, West end!, (49°16’15.5’’N, 123°11’41.8’’W), 10.xi.2008, leg. R. D. Kenner (1 UBC) GoogleMaps .

References

Perkins, P. D. (1980) Aquatic beetles of the family Hydraenidae in the Western Hemisphere: classification, biogeography and inferred phylogeny (Insecta: Coleoptera). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 16, 3 - 554. [Available free from the Biodiversity Heritage Library website]