Subspecies Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) bilineatus bilineatus (W.S. MacLeay, 1825)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hydrous bilineatus 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. [36].
• Hydrophilus orientalis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1833. Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon Marvis Vol. Livr. 1 & 2 livr. 1 pp. 1-96. livr. 2 pp. 97-176. [133] [nomen nudum].
• Hydrophilus ruficornis Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [151] [junior primary homonym of Hydrophilus ruficornis Klug, 1833].
• Hydroporus picicornis Chevrolat, A. 1863. Coléoptères de l'île de Cuba. Notes, synonymies et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Familles des Cicindélètes, Carabiques, Dytiscides, Gyrinides et Palpicornes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 3: 183–210 [204].
• Hydrophilus gayndahensis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [129].
• Hydrophilus sabelliferus Fairmaire, L. 1879. Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 14: 80–114 [80].
• Hydrous (Pagipherus) picicornis orientalis Kuwert, A. 1893. Die grossen Hydrophiliden des Erdballs des Genus Hydrous Leach. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1893: 81-93 [91] [as Hydrous (Pagipherus) picicornis var. orientalis attrib. Dejean].
• Hydrous (Pagipherus) columbinus Kuwert, A. 1893. Die grossen Hydrophiliden des Erdballs des Genus Hydrous Leach. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1893: 81-93 [90].
• Hydrous (Pagipherus) brunnipalpis Kuwert, A. 1893. Die grossen Hydrophiliden des Erdballs des Genus Hydrous Leach. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1893: 81-93 [90].
• Hydrous (Pagipherus) picicornis resplendens Kuwert, A. 1893. Die grossen Hydrophiliden des Erdballs des Genus Hydrous Leach. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1893: 81-93 [91] [as Hydrous (Pagipherus) picicornis var. resplendens attrib. Eschscholtz].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 1988. Revision of Australasian Hydrophilus Müller, 1764 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 22(2): 117-130 [120]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) bilineatus bilineatus (W.S. MacLeay, 1825).
• Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) picicornis (Chevrolat, 1863).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Also Fiji, New Guinea, Java, Sulawesi.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic, predator.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		25-May-2011	ADDED