Species Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) decempunctatus (Fabricius, 1775)

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• 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 and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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

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