Bibliography for Bidessini

• Balfour-Browne, J. 1944. New names and new synonymies in the Dytiscidae (Col.). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 6: 345-358
• Balke, M. & Ribera, I. 2004. Jumping across Wallace's line: Allodessus and Limbodessus revisited (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological data. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 114-128
• Balke, M. & Satô, M. 1995. Limbodessus compactus (Clark): a widespread Austro-Oriental species, as revealed by its synonymy with two other species of Bidessini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Aquatic Insects 17(3): 187-192
• Biström, O. 1988. Generic review of the Bidessini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Acta Entomologica Fennica 184: 1-41
• Biström, O. & Silfverberg, H. 1981. Hydroglyphus Motschulsky, a senior synonym of Guignotus Houlbert (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Annales Entomologici Fennici 47(4): 124
• 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]
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• Guignot, F. 1939. Contribution à l'étude des Bidessus. Bulletin de la Société d'études des Sciences naturelles de Vaucluse 10: 51-61
• Guignot, F. 1946. Génotypes des Dytiscoidea et des Gyrinoidea. Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 112-118
• Guignot, F. 1953. Trente-neuvième note sur les Hydrocantheres. Revue Française d'Entomologie 20: 109-117
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• Hendrich, L., Hawlitschek, O. & Balke, M. 2009. The epigean Australasian species of Neobidessodes gen.n. diving beetles—a revision integrating morphology, cybertaxonomy, DNA taxonomy and phylogeny (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Zootaxa 2288: 1-41
• Hendrich, L., Wang, L.J. & Balke, M. 2021. Taxonomic revision of Australasian diving beetles in the genus Leiodytes Guignot, 1936 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Zootaxa 4990: 23-44
• Hendrich, L., Watts, C.H.S. & Balke, M. 2020. The “minute diving beetles” of southern Australia – taxonomic revision of Gibbidessus Watts, 1978, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). ZooKeys 975: 11-49 [Date published 12/10/2020]
• Hendrich, L. & Balke, M. 2009. Kakadudessus tomweiri, a new genus and species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia, based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological data (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Zootaxa 2134: 49-59
• Hendrich, L. & Balke, M. 2011. A simultaneous journal / wiki publication and dissemination of a new species description: Neobidessodes darwiniensis sp. n. from northern Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini). ZooKeys 79: 11-20
• Hendrich, L. & Balke, M. in Hendrich, L., Hawlitschek, O. & Balke, M. 2009. The epigean Australasian species of Neobidessodes gen.n. diving beetles—a revision integrating morphology, cybertaxonomy, DNA taxonomy and phylogeny (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Zootaxa 2288: 1-41
• Hendrich, L. & Wang, L.-J. 2006. Taxonomic revision of Australian Clypeodytes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini). Entomological Problems 36(1): 1-11
• Houlbert, C. 1934. Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Coléoptères. Hydrocarabiques (hydaticiformes). Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Bretagne hors sér. 11: 1-147
• Larson, D.J. 1994. Boongurrus rivulus, a new genus and species of water beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini) from northern Queensland, Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33(3): 217-221 [Date published 26/Aug/1994]
• Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898]
• Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205
• Michat, M.C., Alarie, Y. & Watts, C.H.S. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships and comparative larval morphology of epigean and stygobitic species of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), with a key of identification. Zootaxa 3584: 1–110
• Miller, K.B. 2012. Petrodessus conatus sp. n., a new genus and species of Bidessini from hygropetric habitats in tropical Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Zootaxa 3242: 62-67
• Motschulsky, V. von 1853. Hydrocanthares de la Russie. Helsingfors : Société de Litérature Finnoise 15 pp.
• Régimbart, M. 1892. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia Orientale IV. Haliplidae, Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 10: 978-997 [Date published 20/Jul/1892]
• Régimbart, M. 1894. Voyage de M. Simon dans l'Afrique Australe. Haliplidae, Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 63: 122-240
• Régimbart, M. 1899. Revision des Dytiscidae de la région Indo-Sino-Malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 186-367
• Satô, M. 1972. New dytiscid beetles from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 45(1): 49-59 [Date published Mar/1972]
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• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 1999. Three new genera and five new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 32(2): 121–142
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2000. Six new species of Nirridessus Watts and Humphreys and Tjirtudessus Watts and Humphreys (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 33(2): 127-144
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2001. A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 34(2): 99-114
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2003. Twenty-five new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys, Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys and Bidessodes Regimbart, from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 36: 135-187
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2004. Thirteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Boongurrus Larson, Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys and Nirripirti Watts and Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 128(2): 99-129
• Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2006. Twenty-six new dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 130(1): 123-185
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• Watts, C.H.S. & McRae, J. 2013. Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 141–143
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