Ochthebius (Asiobates) orbus 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 : 73

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166763
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scientific name	Ochthebius (Asiobates) orbus Perkins
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The new record below documents a new collection record and a new depository for identified specimens of this very rarely collected species, which is presently known only from Marin County, California and Portland, Oregon. Only four specimens of this species are in museum collections .

New record: U.S.A.: California, Marin Co., Mt. Tamalpais St. Pk. , Redwood Creek , along Muir Woods Rd. , 2 mi. S. Muir Woods N.M., 27.iii.1986, leg. C. B. Barr (1 female MCZ) .

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]