Species Gymnochthebius brisbanensis (Blackburn, 1898)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ochthebius brisbanensis Blackburn, T. 1898. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 22: 221-233 [229].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (by monotypy; [labels: 'TYPE [red disc]'; '6373' Qu. [red] T.'; 'Kedron Pk., Brisbane. C. Wild, 1892'; Blackburn coll. 1910-236'; 'Ochthebius brisbanensis, Blackb.']), Queensland: Brisbane, Kedron Pk.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gymnochthebius brisbanensis (Blackburn, 1898). —
  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 [53]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Rarely collected species, currently known from Brisbane south to south-western Victoria.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, aquatic, dead leaves, lentic freshwater, stones.

 

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 [53]

 

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)