Ochthebius (s.str.) lecontei 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 : 77

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.10166790
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD878B-FF9C-FFBD-FCBE-FB9158A939B9
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scientific name	Ochthebius (s.str.) lecontei Perkins
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The new record below documents a new locality and a new depository for identified specimens of this species, which is now known from 46 specimens. This species has an unusual distribution, with specimens from the Great Basin (southwestern Utah; northeastern Nevada), the Columbia Plateau (western Washington) and southern British Columbia. One locality is known in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana.

New record: Canada: British Columbia, Chilcotin ( Riske Creek ), Lake Lye , (52°1’N, 122°29’E), 8.v.1968, leg. G. G. E. Scudder (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]