Species Chaetarthria nigerrima (Blackburn, 1891)

• Paracymus nigerrimus Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [66].
• Chaetarthria sjöstedti Knisch, A, 1922. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 29. Hydrophilidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 14(17): 1-4 [3].

  Type data:

   Paralectotype(s) IRSNB 3 specimens, Malanda, QLD & Adelaide River, NT.
• Chaetarthria australis Knisch, A, 1922. Hydrophiliden-Studien. (Op. 10). Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A(5): 87-126 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH 10701 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25°38'S 151°39'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Balfour-Browne, J. 1938. A contribution to the study of the Palpicornia. I. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 74: 102-107 [107]

Generic Combinations

• Chaetarthria nigerrima (Blackburn, 1891).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), 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), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

Diagnosis References

Fikacek, M. 2010. HYDROPHILIDAE: The genus Chaetarthria STEPHENS – description of a new species from New Caledonia and notes on C. nigerrima (BLACKBURN) from Australia (Coleoptera). pp.263-269 in Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.). Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. Part 1. [ISSN: 1027-8869] [267] (Notes on synonymies)

General References

Watts, C.H.S. 2000. Revision of Australian Chaetarthria Stephens (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 33(1): 29-31 [31] (distribution)

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