Discovery of Aspidytidae, a new family of aquatic Coleoptera [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2002 The six extant aquatic families of Hydradephaga (Coleoptera) known so far represent a diverse group of beetles morphologically highly modified for life in the water. We report the discovery of a new genus with two species from South Africa and China, which differ greatly from all extant families, but resemble the Jurassic-Cretaceous dagger Liadytidae ...
Alfried Vogler, Ignacio Ribera
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Wellcome Open Research, 2023 We present a genome assembly from an individual female Elmis aenea (a riffle beetle; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Elmidae). The genome sequence is 516.5 megabases in span.
Garth Foster, John D.S. Findlay
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Notes on Dineutus helleri Ochs, 1925, with new records for the Cyclops Mountains Whirligig Beetle, Dineutus h. stueberi Ochs, 1955 (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae) [PDF]
Check List, 2021 We review Dineutus helleri Ochs, 1925, a whirligig beetle species endemic to New Guinea’s north coast mountains. Its diagnostic characters are illustrated for easy species identification.
Suriani Surbakti +3 more
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Observed shifts in the contact zone between two forms of the diving beetle Hydroporus memnonius are consistent with predictions from sexual conflict [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Sexual conflict drives both inter- and intrasexual dimorphisms in many diving beetles, where male persistence and female resistance traits co-evolve in an antagonistic manner.
David T. Bilton, Garth N. Foster
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Frequent discordance between morphology and mitochondrial DNA in a species group of European water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The Hydroporus memnonius species group includes both widespread and range restricted diving beetle taxa in the western Palaearctic, some of which have been divided into a number of geographical subspecies.
David T. Bilton +2 more
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First records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) in Taiwan (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydrovatini) [PDF]
Check List, 2021 We provide the first records of the diving beetles Hydrovatus subrotundatus Motschulsky, 1859 and Hydrovatus pudicus (Clark, 1863) from Taiwan. They are otherwise widespread in Southeast Asia. The habitats of both species and the associated diving beetle
Liang-Jong Wang +2 more
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New records of the diving beetle Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908 in south-western Australia (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) [PDF]
Check List, 2021 New distributional records of the rarely collected diving beetle Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908, an endemic species of south-western Australia, are presented. We also summarize what is known about its habitat. The occurrence of R.
Lars Hendrich, Michael Balke
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Small Islands, Small Ponds, Small Communities—Water Beetles and Water Boatmen in the Faroe Islands
Insects, 2022 Water beetles of the families Dytiscidae and Haliplidae (Coleoptera) as well as water boatmen (Heteroptera: Corixidae) are well-studied groups in Northern Europe.
Leivur Janus Hansen +1 more
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Discovery of the Australian diving beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922) in New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) [PDF]
Check List, 2021 The diving beetle genus Neobidessodes Hendrich & Balke, 2009 contains 10 species. Nine of them were considered endemic to Australia, one of them to the Trans Fly Savanna and Grasslands Ecoregion of New Guinea island.
Suriani Surbakti +2 more
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Ecological factors affecting aquatic beetle species (Insecta: Coleoptera) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2019 Aquatic Coleoptera play an important role in freshwater ecosystems and are considered as a suitable bioindicator. Despite being widely distributed in Iran, there are few studies in which aquatic Coleoptera are used to assess ecological quality and ...
Maryam Taher, Mohammad Saeed Heydarnejad
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