Species Crephelochares nitescens (Fauvel, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Philhydrus nitescens Fauvel, A. 1883. Les Coléoptères de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et dépendances, avec descriptions, notes et synonymies nouvelles. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 2: 335-360 [354].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Short, A., Girón, J. & Toussaint, E. 2021. Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America. Systematic Entomology 46: 380-395 [391] (transferred to Crephelochares after Chasmogenus was circumscribed and restricted to Central and South America)

Generic Combinations

• Chasmogenus nitescens (Fauvel, 1883).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

General References

Anderson, J.M.E. 1976. Aquatic Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). The biology of some Australian species with descriptions of immature stages reared in the laboratory. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15(2): 219-228 [223] (larval description, biology (as Helochares nitescens))

History of changes