Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Nilsson, A.N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 3 395 pp. [41]

Distribution

States

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

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), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), 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), 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), Pilbara (PIL), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling 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: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Papua New Guinea
• Vanuatu

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Distribution References

General References

Hendrich, L. & Stastny, J. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae). Zootaxa 3795(1): 25-37 (New species and checklist of Australian species)

Watts, C.H.S. 1985. A faunal assessment of the Australian Hydradephaga. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 137: 22-28 [25]

Weir, T.A. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp. [348] (following Watts (1985: 25) recognised Neoplatynectes and Australonectes as junior synonyms of Platynectes)

History of changes

• Australonectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [55] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878].

  Type species:

   Platynectes (Australonectes) brownei Guéorguiev, 1972 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

History of changes

• Platynectes (Australonectes) brownei Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [56].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♂, Margaret River, WA.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 4♂, 3♀; IZASS ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Gueorguievtes Vazirani, T.G. 1976. Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). 15. Subgeneric classification of Platynectes Régimbart (Dytiscidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 71: 169-173 [170] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878].

  Type species:

   Agabus dissimilis Sharp, 1873 by original designation.
• Metaplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1978. Dytiscidae cavernicoles de papouasie (Résultats zoologiques de la Mission spéléologique britannique en Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée, 1975, 1). International Journal of Speleology 9: 267-272 [271] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878].

  Type species:

   Dytiscus decempunctatus Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nilsson, A.N., Roughley, R.E. & Brancucci. M. 1989. A review of the genus- and family-group names of the family Dytiscidae Leach (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 20: 287-316 [301]

Distribution

States

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

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), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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) ; NT, Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK)

History of changes

• Platynectes (Platynectes) australicus Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [52].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♂, Brisbane, QLD.
  Paratype(s) MCZ ♂ 2♀; IZASS ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Agabus bakewelli Clark, H. 1863. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part II. Journal of Entomology 2: 14–23 [Jan. 1863] [19].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [110].
• Platynectes obscurus Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [539].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [110]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

General References

Alarie, Y., Michat, M.C., Short, A.E.Z. & Watts, C.H.S. 2024. Larval ground plan of Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 reconsidered: description of the larvae of three species with phylogenetic considerations (Coleoptera: Adephaga, Dytiscidae). Zootaxa 5458(3): 301-331 [311-317]

History of changes

• Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) brancucci Hendrich, L. & Stastny, J. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae). Zootaxa 3795(1): 25-37 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Queensland, Nigger Cr. Trib. 23 km S Atherton Oct. 18/90 Larson.
  Paratype(s) 3 ♂ 1 ♀ (ANIC, CJS (Collection Jaroslav Stastny), CLH (Collection Lars Hendrich)), Same as holotype; 2 ♂ (ANIC, CLH (Collection Lars Hendrich)), Queensland, Trib. Kauri Cr. L. Tinaroo Oct. 29.1990 Larson; SAMA 25-006387 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (SAMA Database No 25-006387 (not sure to which specimen this number refers to)), Queensland, Kauri Cr. Tinaroo L., NE Atherton Oct. 24/90 Larson.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Dytiscus decempunctatus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [232].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (Banks coll.), Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Agabus spilopterus Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [172].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.
• Agabus lugubris Blanchard, C.E. 1853. Description des Insectes. pp. 1-422 in Dumont-d'Urville, J. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry Vol. 4 422 pp. [published between 1842–1853] [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, TAS.
• Agabus mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [126].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC 3 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.
• Lancetes ocularis Lea, A.M. 1895. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 224-319 [Date published 29 May 1895] [224] [as Lancestes ocularis].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K18947, Donnybrook, WA.
• Platynectes polygrammus Régimbart, M. 1899. Revision des Dytiscidae de la région Indo-Sino-Malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 186-367 [283].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (Sharp coll.), locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Régimbart, M. 1899. Revision des Dytiscidae de la région Indo-Sino-Malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 186-367 [283]
• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [106]

Distribution

States

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

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), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, 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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lotic freshwater, predator.

History of changes

• Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) larsoni Hendrich, L. & Stastny, J. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae). Zootaxa 3795(1): 25-37 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Queensland, Windsor Tableland Feb 6–8/91 Larson & Storey.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1 ♀, Queensland, Mulgrave R. Kearney´s Falls Oct. 6, 1990.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Colymbetes monostigma Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430 [Date published 1 Jul. 1842] [427].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM, Port Essington, NT.
• Agabus latissimus Clark, H. 1863. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part II. Journal of Entomology 2: 14–23 [Jan. 1863] [18].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [109].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [109]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Platynectes multimaculatus Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [109 fig. 231].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Marysville, VIC.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1 specimen; ANIC 1 specimen; MCZ 3 specimens.
• Platynectes (Platynectes) darlingtoni Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [43] [preoccupied by Guéorguiev 1971a:172 - see Nilsson & Hájek (2020)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♂, Mt Wilson, NSW.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 2♂, 8♀; IZASS ♂ ♀.

  Secondary source:

   Nilsson, A.N. & Hájek, J. 1 Jan 2020. A world catalogue of the family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Water Beetles. 1.I.2020. http://www.waterbeetles.eu/ [36].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1985. A faunal assessment of the Australian Hydradephaga. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 137: 22-28 [25]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Colymbetes octodecimmaculatus Macleay, W.S. 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L. & G.S. and deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 52 pp. 1 pl. [31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Java.

  Secondary source:

   Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62.
• Platynectes flavoscriptus Zimmermann, A. 1919. Die Schwimmkäfer des Deutschen Entomologischen Museums in Berlin-Dahlem. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 83 (1917)(A 12): 68-249 [213].
• Platynectes nigroangularis Zimmermann, A. 1919. Die Schwimmkäfer des Deutschen Entomologischen Museums in Berlin-Dahlem. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 83 (1917)(A 12): 68-249 [214].
• Platynectes variegatus Regimbart, M.A. 1899. Révision des Dytiscidae de la région indo-sino-malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 186-367 [286].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) ponderi Hendrich, L. & Stastny, J. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae). Zootaxa 3795(1): 25-37 [26].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA ♂, Queensland, Carnarvon Station, unnamed spring btw Lorikeet & Barking Owl Springs, 18 Apr 2007 lgt. W.F.Ponder, A.Wells & W.Zeidler [24°48'S 147°52'5'' E].
  Paratype(s) AMSA 1 ♀, Same as holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

History of changes

• Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) semperi Regimbart, M.A. 1899. Révision des Dytiscidae de la région indo-sino-malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 186-367 [285].

History of changes

• Agabus tasmaniae Clark, H. 1863. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part II. Journal of Entomology 2: 14–23 [Jan. 1863] [18].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [107].
• Platynectes daemeli Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [542].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 4♂ 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [107].
• Platynectes gagatinus Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [527].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Sydney, NSW.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [107]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) weiri Hendrich, L. & Stastny, J. 2014. Taxonomic revision of Australian Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 (part I)—four new species from Queensland (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Agabinae). Zootaxa 3795(1): 25-37 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Queensland, White Mountains N.P. 2.5 km NE of RGSQ/AG Base Camp 4 Apr. 2000 T. Weir at light [20.27S 144.49E].
  Paratype(s) 3 ♂ 1 ♀ (ANIC, CLH (Collection Lars Hendrich)), Same as holotype; 2 ♂ 1 ♀ (ANIC, CJS (Collection Jaroslav Stastny)), Queensland, White Mountains N.P. 2 km NE of RGSQ/AG Base Camp 5 – 7 Apr. 2000 T. Weir [20.26S 144.51E]; ANIC 1 ♀, Queensland, Whishaw Station nr. Mountains N.P. 29 Mar. 2000 T. Weir, at light [20.27S 144.49E]; 2 ♀ (ANIC, CLH (Collection Lars Hendrich)), Queensland, 14 km WbyN Hope Vale Mission [69 m], 7–10 May 1981 A. Calder, at light [15.16S 144.59E]; QMBA 1 ♂, Queensland, White Mountains 53 km NE Prairie, Sep 1995 D.J. Cook.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)

History of changes

• Platynectes Régimbart, M. 1878. Étude sur la classification des Dytiscidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 8: 447-466 [454].

  Type species:

   Agabus decemnotatus Aubé, 1838 by subsequent designation, see Guignot, F. 1946. Génotypes des Dytiscoidea et des Gyrinoidea. Revue Française d'Entomologie 13: 112-118 [117].
• Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [34] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878; junior primary homonym of Neoplatynectes Vazirani, 1970].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by original designation.
• Notoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1978. Dytiscidae cavernicoles de papouasie (Résultats zoologiques de la Mission spéléologique britannique en Papouasie-Nouvelle Guinée, 1975, 1). International Journal of Speleology 9: 267-272 [270] [replacement name for Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, 1972].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Nilsson, A.N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 3 395 pp. [43] (designated under Article 67.8).
• Hypoplatynectes Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62 [34] [first introduced as a subgenus of Platynectes Régimbart, 1878].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes submaculatus Laporte, 1835 by original designation.
• Carinonectes Vazirani, T.G. 1976. Contributions to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera). 15. Subgeneric classification of Platynectes Régimbart (Dytiscidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 71: 169-173 [171] [replacement name for Neoplatynectes Guéorguiev, 1972].

  Type species:

   Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Nilsson, A.N. 2001. World Catalogue of Insects. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 3 395 pp. [43] (designated under Article 67.8).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Platynectes aenescens Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [538].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, King George Sound, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [111].
• Platynectes subaenescens Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [527].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Beverley, WA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2 specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [111]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Platynectes laurianus Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [112 fig. 223].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T5764 ♂, TAS.
  Paratype(s) NMV T5765 1 specimen; AM 4 specimens; ANIC 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Colymbetes magellanicus Babington, C.C. 1841. Dytiscidae Darwinianae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 3(1): 1-17 [10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Tierra del Fuego (obviously mislabelled see Guéorguiev (1972)).

  Type locality references:

  Guéorguiev, V.B. 1972. Notes sur les Agabini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). II. Révision des genres Platynectes Rég. et Colymbinectes Falk. Izvestiya na Zoologicheskiya Institut. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite 34: 33-62.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, predator.

History of changes

• Agabus reticulosus Clark, H. 1863. Catalogue of the Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae of Australasia with descriptions of new species. Part II. Journal of Entomology 2: 14–23 [Jan. 1863] [19].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [111].
• Platynectes limbatus Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 2: 179-1003 [539].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Melbourne, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [111]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lotic freshwater, predator.

General References

Alarie, Y., Michat, M.C., Short, A.E.Z. & Watts, C.H.S. 2024. Larval ground plan of Platynectes Régimbart, 1879 reconsidered: description of the larvae of three species with phylogenetic considerations (Coleoptera: Adephaga, Dytiscidae). Zootaxa 5458(3): 301-331 [317-322]

History of changes