Genus Paroster Sharp, 1882

Museums

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• Paroster Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [391].

  Type species:

   Hydroporus insculptilis Clark, 1862 by subsequent designation, see Guignot, F. 1946. Génotypes des Dytiscoidea et des Gyrinoidea. Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 112-118 [114].
• Nirripirti Watts, C.H.S. & Humphreys, W.F. 2001. A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 34(2): 99-114 [109].

  Type species:

   Nirripirti hinzeae Watts & Humphreys, 2001 by original designation.
• Terradessus Watts, C.H.S. 1982. A blind terrestrial water beetle from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 527-531 pl. 1 [527].

  Type species:

   Terradessus caecus Watts, 1982 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Leys, R. & Watts, C.H. 2008. Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 217-225 [219]
• Toussaint, E.F.A., Hendrich, L., Escalona, H.E., Porch, N. & Balke, M. 2016. Evolutionary history of a secondary terrestrial Australian diving beetle (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) reveals a lineage of high morphological and ecological plasticity. Systematic Entomology 41(3): 650–657 [Date published July 2016] [652] (for Terradessus Watts, 1982)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Tanami (TAN) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; NT, SA, Vic, WA: Great Sandy Desert (GSD) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

General References

Leys, R., Roudnew, B. & Watts, C.H.S. 2010. Paroster extraordinarius sp. nov., a new groundwater diving beetle from the Flinders Ranges, with notes on other diving beetles from gravels in South Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 49: 66-72 (phylogenetic analysis of Paroster)

Leys, R. & Watts, C.H. 2008. Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 217-225 (systematics, based on molecular study)

Toussaint, E.F.A., Hendrich, L., Escalona, H.E., Porch, N. & Balke, M. 2016. Evolutionary history of a secondary terrestrial Australian diving beetle (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) reveals a lineage of high morphological and ecological plasticity. Systematic Entomology 41(3): 650–657 [Date published July 2016] (molecular phylogeny of Paroster and Terradessus species; Terradessus nested within Paroster)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Aug-2016	Hydroporinae	26-Jun-2016	MODIFIED
03-Dec-2012		03-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
17-Dec-2010		17-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)