Species Haliplus testudo Clark, 1862

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Species Haliplus testudo Clark, 1862

Haliplus testudo Clark, H. 1862. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part I. Journal of Entomology 1: 399–421 [Sept. 1862] [400].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
Watts, C.H.S. 1988. Revision of Australian Halipilidae [sic] (Coleoptera). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 22(1): 21-28 [Date published 4/Jul/1988] [23].
Haliplus nigrolineatus Wehncke, E. 1883. Neue Halipliden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 27: 145-146 [145].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP, Montevideo, Uruguay (obviously mislabelled see [80]).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Vondel, B.J. van 1995. Revision of the Haliplidae (Coleoptera) of the Australian Region and the Moluccas. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 28(1): 61-101 [80]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N Gulf
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, aquatic, bottom-dweller, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: algae feeder, aquatic.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Jul-2012		19-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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