Species Platynectes (Gueorguievtes) octodecimmaculatus (Macleay, 1825)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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