Species Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) novicia (Blackburn, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ochthebius novicius Blackburn, T. 1896. Coleoptera (exclusive of the Carabidae). pp. 254-308 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part ii. Zoology. London : Dulau iv 431 pp. [260].

  Type data:

   Holotype MVMA ♀ ([labels: 'Cent Ausl Calhoun Exp. Pres 7-94; Reedy Hole; T-9612 Type; Ochthebius novicius, Blackb.; Sperma. drawn by P.D. Perkins']), Northern Territories, Macdonnell Ranges, Reedy Hole [23°46'S 133°20'E].
• Ochthebius labratus Deane, C. 1933. Australian Hydrophilidae—Notes and new species. No. 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 46(1): 20-27 [26].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UQIC ♂ ([labels: 'TYPE // Tambourine Wassell // Aedeagus drawn by P. D. Perkins // DIGITAL IMAGE captured 2005 P.D. Perkins// Ochthebius labratus Deane. Det. C.Deane // lectotype Ochthebius labratus Deane' by P.D. Perkins]), Queensland, Tambourine [27°53'S 153°11'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Meropathus labratus (Deane, 1933).
• Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) novicia (Blackburn, 1896).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

A very wide and sparse distribution pattern; known from eastern New South Wales, southern Queensland, and four very disjunct localities near the center of the continent. Reedy Hole Waterhole. Tamborine.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), 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), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), 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 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, aquatic, lentic freshwater.

 

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 [62]

 

History of changes

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01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		15-Dec-2010	MODIFIED