Mochtherus tetraspilotus (Macleay, 1825)
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Mochtherus tetraspilotus (Macleay, 1825) |
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Mochtherus tetraspilotus (Macleay, 1825)
Dromius tetraspilotus W.S. Macleay, 1825: 25. Type locality: Java (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in USS).
Distribution.
This species is widely distributed in Asia from India to Japan, south through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea; it is also known from Christmas Island and Samoa. The species is adventive in southeastern United States and currently known from Florida, where the first specimens were detected in 1992 in Palm Beach County (Choate 2001), southern Mississippi (Pearl River County, Peter W. Messer pers. comm. 2010), and east-central Louisiana (West Feliciana Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009).
Records.
USA: FL, LA, MS - Adventive
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Mochtherus tetraspilotus (Macleay, 1825)
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Dromius tetraspilotus
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