Species Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) buffalo Perkins, 2006

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• Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) buffalo Perkins, P.D. 2006. A revision of the Australian humicolous hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1346: 1-396 [96].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park [36°44'S 146°46'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 80 (more depositories; sex not determined; a few localities), Mount Buffalo National Park.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Mt Buffalo National Park.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae and flood debris, algae covered rocks, dry sclerophyll forest, hygropetric.

Extra Ecological Information

Hygropetric zone of waterfall.

 

Diagnosis References

Perkins, P.D. 2006. A revision of the Australian humicolous hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 1346: 1-396 [97]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)