Species Onychohydrus scutellaris (Germar, 1848)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cybister scutellaris Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [171].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, South Australia, SA.
• Cybister incognitus Gschwendtner, L. 1931. Revision der Cybister tripunctatus-Gruppe. Entomologische Blätter für Biologie und Systematik der Käfer 27: 97-104 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Melbourne, VIC (as Neu Holland).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gschwendtner, L. 1932. Neue Schwimmkäfer des Deutschen Entomologischen Museums. Entomologischer Anzeiger 13: 46-49 [49]
• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [152]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, predator.

 

General References

Watts, C.H.S. 1964. The larvae of Australian Cybister spp. Curt., Homoeodytes spp. Reg. and Hyderodes shuckardi Hope (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 88: 145-156 [152] (larval description as Homoeodytes scutellaris)

 

History of changes

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