Species Paracymus pygmaeus (W.J. Macleay, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclonotum pygmaeum Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [133].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K204407, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Anacaena tepida Winterbourn, M. J. 1970. The Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand's thermal waters. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Biological Sciences 12(4): 21-28 [Date published 1 April 1970] [27].
• Hydrobius nitidiusculus Broun, T. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Wellington : Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department Part 1 651 pp. [78].
• Paracymus desolatus Wooldridge, D.P. 1976. Paracymus of the Australian faunal region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 49(3): 453-462 [Jul. 1976] [458].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gentili, E. 2000. The Paracymus of Australia (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 33(2): 101-122 [102]
• Gentili, E. 2010. Hydrophilidae: The genus Paracymus Thomson (Coleoptera). pp. 257-262 in Jäch, M.A. & Balke, M. (eds.). Water beetles of New Caledonia (part 1). Monographs on Coleoptera, 3. Part 1. [ISSN: 1027-8869] [259]

 

Generic Combinations

• Paracymus pygmaeus (W.J. Macleay, 1871).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Also New Zealand, New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, riparian, volant.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	27-Apr-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
01-Jul-2020		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)