Ochthebius (Asiobates) puncticollis LeConte

Perkins, Philip D., 2023, New Neotropical and Nearctic species of water beetles in the genera Hydraena Kugelann and Ochthebius Leach, a key to North American genera and subgenera of the family, new distribution records, and a synopsis of ecology, behavior and morphology related to aquatic life (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), Zootaxa 5367 (1), pp. 1-86 : 73

Ochthebius (Asiobates) puncticollis LeConte

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Ochthebius puncticollis LeConte, 1852: 210

The new records below document new localities and two new depositories for identified specimens of this species, which is widely distributed throughout the southwestern United States and adjacent Baja California. In California the species is apparently restricted to coastal mountain ranges; not yet known from the Sierra Nevada mountains.

New records: Mexico: Baja California, Norte, Isla Cedros north point, 20–21.iii.1981, leg. F. Andrews & D. Faulkner (30 CDFA) ; U.S.A.: Arizona, Navajo Co., Forestdale Trading Pst. , 26.v.1979, leg. C. N. McKinnon (1 TAMU) ; Pinal Co., Aravaipa Primitive Ar., 27.v.1979, leg. C. N. McKinnon (2 TAMU) ; California, Orange Co., San Juan Canyon , 16.vii.1979, leg. C. N. McKinnon (2 TAMU) .

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FIGURE 38. Dorsal habitus of representative species of Nearctic Hydraenidae.