Ochthebius (s.str.) rectusalsus 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
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scientific name	Ochthebius (s.str.) rectusalsus Perkins
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The new records below document new localities and two new depositories for identified specimens of this rarely collected species, raising the number of identified specimens in museum collections from 54 to 57. The species is coastal, presently known from the San Francisco bay area, California, south to Baja California, Mexico. One specimen known from the coast of Washington .

New records: Mexico: Baja California, Miller’s Landing , 15.iv.1987, leg. F. Andrews & A. Gilbert (1 CDFA) ; Sur, Guerrero Negro , 16.iv.1987, leg. F. Andrews & A. Gilbert (1 CDFA) ; U.S.A.: California, Orange Co., Bolsa Chica Marsh , 15.xii.1970, leg. G. L. Challet (2 TAMU) .

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]