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• Guignot, F. 1953. Trente-neuvième note sur les Hydrocantheres. Revue Française d'Entomologie 20: 109-117
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• Guignot, F. 1954. Quarante-et-unième note sur les hydrocanthares. Revue Française d'Entomologie 21: 195-202
• Guignot, F. 1954. Quarantième note sur les Hydrocanthares. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 90: 40-45
• Guignot, F. 1956. Dytiscidae nouveaux ou intéressants du Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) ns 7: 395-399
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• Guignot, F. 1956. Troi Dytiscidae nouveaux du Museum G. Frey. Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 7: 490-491
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• Hendrich, L. 2001. A new species of Antiporus Sharp 1882 from peatland swamps of south-western Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 33(1): 299-308 [Date published 29 Jun. 2001]
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• Hendrich, L. 2003. A new species of the genus Necterosoma Sharp, 1882, from the Kimberleys in north-western Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 152-154
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