Ochthebius (s.str.) sculptoides 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 : 79

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166804

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scientific name

Ochthebius (s.str.) sculptoides Perkins
status

 

Ochthebius (s.str.) sculptoides Perkins View in CoL

Ochthebius sculptoides Perkins 1980: 351 View in CoL

The new record below documents a new locality, and the first collection from Sonora, Mexico. The species is rather widely distributed, found in western North America from the U.S.A. —Canadian border to central Mexico; the easternmost known locality in the U.S.A. is in central Wyoming.

New record: Mexico: Sonora, Imuris , 13.vii.1963, leg. P. J. Spangler (5 NMNH) .

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]

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydraenidae

Genus

Ochthebius