Amphiops senegalensis (Laporte, 1840)

Bird, Matthew S., Bilton, David T. & Perissinotto, Renzo, 2017, Diversity and distribution of polyphagan water beetles (Coleoptera) in the Lake St Lucia system, South Africa, ZooKeys 656, pp. 51-84 : 70

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.656.11622

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Amphiops senegalensis (Laporte, 1840)
status

 

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Synonyms.

Amphiops lucidus Erichson, 1843, Cyprimorphus compressus Fairmaire, 1873, Amphiops Abeillei Guillebeau, 1896, Amphiops lucidus var. abeillei Guillebeau, 1896, Amphiops lasioides Régimbart, 1903.

Remarks.

Ponds and other lentic waterbodies.

Distribution.

Widespread to Western, Central, Northern and Eastern Africa; reaching the Palaearctic in Egypt and Morocco.

St Lucia records.

Recorded at Western Shores, Eastern Shores and False Bay in July 2014 and January/February 2015.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Amphiops