Species Enochrus (Methydrus) deserticola (Blackburn, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Philhydrus deserticola Blackburn, T. 1896. Coleoptera (exclusive of the Carabidae). pp. 254-308 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part ii. Zoology. London : Dulau iv 431 pp. [258].
• Philhydrus temporalis Régimbart, M. 1908. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae et Hydrophilidae. pp. 311-316 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna von Südwest Australiens. Band 1 Lieferung 8. Jena : G. Fischer viii 488 pp. 1 pl. [315].
• Enochrus (Lumetus) mjöbergi 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 [2].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1998. Revision of Australian Enochrus Thomson (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 30(2): 137-156 [142]

Generic Combinations

• Enochrus (Methydrus) deserticola (Blackburn, 1896).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

History of changes