Species Gymnochthebius tenebricosus (Deane, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ochthebius tenebricosus Deane, C. 1931. Australian Hydrophilidae; notes and new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 43(2): 166-176 [169].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MVMA ♀ ([labels: 'North Sydney flood refuse 9.06 HJC'; 'Type T-4192']; type series in the Museum of Victoria consists of two female specimens), New South Wales: Sydney.

 

Generic Combinations

• Gymnochthebius tenebricosus (Deane, 1931). —
  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 [56]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Described more than seventy years ago, this species is still known only from the two female type specimens, collected in 'north Sydney'.

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, aquatic, lentic freshwater.

 

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 [56]

 

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)