Species Gyrinus (Gyrinus) convexiusculus Macleay, 1871

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gyrinus convexiusculus Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K204433, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Gyrinus huttoni Pascoe, F.P. 1877. Descriptions of new genera and species of New-Zealand Coleoptera — Part IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 19: 140–147 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (?BMNH), Waikato, New Zealand.
• Gyrinus simoni Régimbart, M. 1883. Essai monographique de la famille des Gyrinidae. Pt. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 3: 121-190 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ochs, G. 1949. A revision of the Australian Gyrinidae. Records of the Australian Museum 22: 171-199 [172]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, on-surface swimmer, predator.

Larva: bottom-dweller, predator.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)