Hydraena (Holcohydraena) occidentalis 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 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10166671
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scientific name	Hydraena (Holcohydraena) occidentalis Perkins
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The new records below document two new localities, including the first record for Baja California , and a new depository for identified specimens of this species. The currently known distribution is from British Columbia , south thru Washington, Oregon and California to Baja California.

New records: U.S.A.: California: Orange Co., San Juan Canyon , 16.vii.1979, leg. C. N. McKinnon (1 TAMU); Mexico: Baja California, Sur, Sierra Laguna, La Laguna, 17 air mi. ENE Todos Santos!, 12–18.xii.1979, leg. J. Doyen & W. Tschinkel (3 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]