Species Berosus (Enoplurus) australiae Mulsant & Rey, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Berosus australiae Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1858. Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de Coléoptères du genre Bérose. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture de Lyon 3 2: 316-320 [also issued in Mulsant, E. (1859) Opuscules Entomologique. Maison : Paris Vol. 9 pp. 58-62] [316].
• Berosus externespinosus Fairmaire, L. 1879. Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 14: 80–114 [81].
• Berosus gravis Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [826].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1987. Revision of Australian Berosus Leach (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 21(1): 1-28 [22]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

History of changes