Genus Tiporus Watts, 1985

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Genus Tiporus Watts, 1985

Compiler and date details

2008 - ABRS, with input from C.H.S. Watts, South Australian Museum

2002 - Updated by Andrew A. Calder, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia

1987 - J.F. Lawrence, T.A. Weir & J.E. Pyke

Tiporus Watts, C.H.S. 1985. A faunal assessment of the Australian Hydradephaga. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 137: 22-28 [24] [replacement name for Hypodes Watts, 1978].
Hypodes Watts, C.H.S. 1978. A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 57: 1-166 [68] [junior primary homonym of Hypodes Cassin, 1859].
Type species:
Hydroporus undecimmaculatus Clark, 1862 by original designation.

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 [24]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

ID Keys

See Hendrich,Balke & Watts (2016: 181)

Diagnosis References

Hendrich, L., Balke, M. & Watts, C.H.S. 2016. Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). Zootaxa 4189(1): 174–182

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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