Species Cybister godeffroyi (Wehncke, 1876)

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• Trogus godeffroyi Wehncke, E. 1876. Neue Dytisciden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 1876: 356-360 [357].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (von Daemel coll.), Cape York, QLD.
• Cybister simoni Régimbart, M. 1877. Séance du 24 Octobre 1877. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 6: cli-clvii [cli].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Cape York, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zimmerman, A. 1920. Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae. pp. 1-326 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 4 Pars 71. [Date published 15/Dec/1920] [260]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

 

General References

Watts, C.H.S. 1964. The larvae of Australian Cybister spp. Curt., Homoeodytes spp. Reg. and Hyderodes shuckardi Hope (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 88: 145-156 [149] (larval description)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)