Ochthebius (Gymnochthebius) nitidus LeConte

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 : 75-76

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A1E5321-D2BA-4B92-BA23-A7C1CDBA5723

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166777

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scientific name

Ochthebius (Gymnochthebius) nitidus LeConte
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Ochthebius (Gymnochthebius) nitidus LeConte View in CoL

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Ochthebius nitidus LeConte, 1850: 217 View in CoL

The following collection/deposition data include the first records for Oklahoma, the southernmost known locality. The species distribution is principally trans-Canadian, northern and especially northeastern U.S.A., and south to Oklahoma. The data also include a new depository for identified specimens of this species.

New records: U.S.A.: Missouri, Boone , Ashland Wildlife Ar., 7.x.1976, leg. E. G. Riley (1 TAMU) ; same locality, 13.x.1976, leg. E. G. Riley (15 TAMU) ; Oklahoma, Latimer Co., 5 mi. W. Red Oak, 1.v.–1.xii.1980, leg. K. H. Stephan (5 MCZ) ; same locality, 1–30.v.1982, leg. K. H. Stephan (2 MCZ) .

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FIGURE 37. Dorsal habitus of representative species of Nearctic Hydraenidae.

TAMU

Texas A&M University

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydraenidae

Genus

Ochthebius