Species Gymnochthebius australis (Blackburn, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ochthebius australis Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [835].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ (labels: 'TYPE [red disc]'; 'Port Lincoln, S. Australia (Blackburn); 'Australia. Blackburn coll. B. M. 1910-236; Ochthebius australis, Blackb.' ; Lectotype [red] O. australis Blackburn by P. D. Perkins'), South Australia: Port Lincoln.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀♂, South Australia: Port Lincoln.
• Ochthebius fischeri Deane, C. 1931. Australian Hydrophilidae; notes and new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 43(2): 166-176 [170].

  Type data:

   Holotype MVMA ♂, Victoria: Melbourne.
• Ochthebius leai Deane, C. 1931. Australian Hydrophilidae; notes and new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 43(2): 166-176 [171].

  Type data:

   Holotype MVMA ♀, Tasmania.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Perkins, P.D. 2005. A revision of the water beetle genus Gymnochthebius Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) for Australia and Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 1024: 1-161 [16-17]

 

Generic Combinations

• Gymnochthebius australis (Blackburn, 1888). —
  Perkins, P.D. 2005. A revision of the water beetle genus Gymnochthebius Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) for Australia and Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 1024: 1-161 [16]
• Gymnochthebius fischeri (Deane, 1931). —
  Hansen, M. 1998. Hydraenidae (Coleoptera). World Catalogue of Insects. Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 1 168 pp. [120]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in a near-coastal belt. Melbourne.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, aquatic, in debris, in sandy mud, lentic freshwater, silty sand.

 

Diagnosis References

Perkins, P.D. 2005. A revision of the water beetle genus Gymnochthebius Orchymont (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) for Australia and Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 1024: 1-161 [17]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)