Species Sternolophus australis Watts, 1989

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sternolophus australis Watts, C.H.S. 1989. Revision of Australasian Sternolophus Solier (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 23(2): 89-95 [90].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 25-0/0384 ♂, Vaughan Springs, NT.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 6♂, Vaughan Springs, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

General References

Nasserzadeh, H. & Komarek, A. 2017. Taxonomic revision of the water scavenger beetle genus Sternolophus Solier, 1834 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4282(2): 201-254 [212, Figs. 4, 15, 34, 46, 64]

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