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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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.279058

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scientific name

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

Fig. 18 View FIGURES 17 – 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 View FIGURES 17 – 18 ). Currently not yet known from the eastern 1 / 3 of southern Africa.

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.

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FIGURES 17 – 18. Geographical distributions of Ochthebius. 17. O. andronius. 18. O. spinasus.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydraenidae