Ochthebius

Perkins, Philip D., 2011, New species and new collection records of aquatic beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 3093, pp. 1-34 : 27

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scientific name	Ochthebius
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Treatment

Ochthebius (s.s.) spinasus Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

Fig. 18 (map)

New collection records (7 specimens): South Africa: Free State Province: 5 mi. W. Caledon, 30 ° 11 ' S, 26 ° 6 ' E, 11 iii 1968, P. J. Spangler (4 USNM); Western Cape Province: Drying pond in river at Graafwater, 32 ° 9 ' S, 18 ° 36 ' E, 28 ii 1997, G. L. Challet (3 NMW).

Distribution. A rather widely, but sparsely distributed species ( Fig. 18). Currently not yet known from the eastern 1 / 3 of southern Africa.

References

Perkins, P. D. & J. Balfour-Browne (1994). Contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: Zoology (New Series), 77, 1 - 159.