Genus Limbodessus Guignot, 1939

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• Limbodessus Guignot, F. 1939. Contribution à l'étude des Bidessus. Bulletin de la Société d'études des Sciences naturelles de Vaucluse 10: 51-61 [54].

  Type species:

   Bidessus neoguineensis Régimbart, 1892 by original designation.
• Boongurrus Larson, D.J. 1994. Boongurrus rivulus, a new genus and species of water beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini) from northern Queensland, Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33(3): 217-221 [Date published 26/Aug/1994] [217].

  Type species:

   Boongurrus rivulus Larson, 1994 by original designation.
• Tjirtudessus Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 1999. Three new genera and five new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 32(2): 121–142 [122].

  Type species:

   Tjirtudessus eberhardi Watts & Humphreys, 1999 by monotypy.
• Nirridessus Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 1999. Three new genera and five new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 32(2): 121–142 [124].

  Type species:

   Nirridessus pulpa Watts & Humphreys, 1999 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cooper, S.J.B., Hinze, S., Leys, R., Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2002. Islands under the desert: molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of stygobitic water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from central Western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 16: 589-598 (molecular study found that no more than size difference separates these genera, but did not actually synonymise genera formally)
• Balke, M. & Ribera, I. 2004. Jumping across Wallace's line: Allodessus and Limbodessus revisited (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological data. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 114-128 [124]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Gascoyne (GAS), Murchison (MUR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders (FLI), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murchison (MUR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Gascoyne (GAS) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR) ; NT, WA: Great Sandy Desert (GSD) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Distribution References

ID Keys

See Watts & Humphreys (2006: 124-131)

 

Diagnosis References

Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2006. Twenty-six new dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 130(1): 123-185

 

General References

Balke, M. & Ribera, I. 2004. Jumping across Wallace's line: Allodessus and Limbodessus revisited (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini) based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological data. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 114-128 (transferred all species previously referred to Liodessus Guignot to this genus)

Michat, M.C., Alarie, Y. & Watts, C.H.S. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships and comparative larval morphology of epigean and stygobitic species of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), with a key of identification. Zootaxa 3584: 1–110

Watts, C.H.S. & Leys, R. 2005. Review of the epigean species of Australian Limbodessus Guignot (Insecta: Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 129(1): 1-13 [Date published 30 May 2005]

Watts, C.H.S. & McRae, J. 2013. Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 141–143 [141] (diagnosis)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Jan-2014	Limbodessus Guignot, 1939	03-Jan-2014	REVIEWED
03-Dec-2012		18-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)