Species Antiporus bakewellii (Clark, 1862)

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• Hydroporus bakewellii Clark, H. 1862. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part I. Journal of Entomology 1: 399–421 [Sept. 1862] [413].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [66].
• Antiporus curtulus Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [412].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [66].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Balfour-Browne, J. 1944. New names and new synonymies in the Dytiscidae (Col.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 345-358 [348]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

 

General References

Hendrich, L. & Watts, C.H.S. 2010. An endemic predaceous water beetle from the Murchison River in Western Australia—Antiporus kalbarriensis sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydroporini). Zootaxa 2338: 35-42 (new records)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Sep-2012		05-Sep-2012	MODIFIED
26-Jul-2011		26-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)