New species and new collection records of aquatic beetles in the genus Ochthebius Leach from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)
Author
Perkins, Philip D.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3093
1
34
journal article
46041
10.5281/zenodo.279058
aadbfc66-59f3-4ecb-af49-5788c22fa7e0
1175-5326
279058
Ochthebius
(
s.s.
)
pedalis
Balfour-Browne, 1954
Fig. 23
(map)
New collection records (
63 specimens
):
Namibia
:
Foram Spring,
23° 10' S
,
15° 11' E
,
8 vii 1986
, C. J. Ward (2
TMSA
); Gobabeb Salt Lake,
23° 40' S
,
14° 50' E
,
25 vi 1982
, Bethune (5
TMSA
); Swakop River, SE 2214 Da,
22° 16' S
,
15° 45' E
,
14 ix 1986
, B. A. Curtis (3
TMSA
);
South Africa
: Eastern Cape Province:
Salt marsh at St. Francis Bay,
34° 8' S
,
24° 50' E
,
27 viii 2004
, G. L. Challet (3
NMW
);
Northern Cape Province:
Dermbergsdraaifarm, shore washing,
30° 48' S
,
17° 43' E
,
19 ix 1994
, Endrödy & Bellamy (#3020) (17
TMSA
);
Transvaal Province:
Pond in river at Elaandsbaai, brackish water,
32° 18' S
,
18° 21' E
,
24 viii 2004
, G. L. Challet (8
NMW
);
Western Cape Province:
Darling, wetland 33.1,
33° 8' S
,
18° 27' E
,
20 ix 2007
, M. Mlambo & M. Bird (2 UCT); Darling, wetland 33.2,
33° 8' S
,
18° 27' E
,
20 ix 2007
, M. Mlambo & M. Bird (5 UCT); Pond No. of Wydgelee,
34° 22' S
,
20° 25' E
,
3 iii 1997
, G. L. Challet (2
NMW
); Richtersveld, Brandkaross, Oranje, shorewashing, Oranje,
28° 29' S
,
16° 41' E
,
4 viii 1989
, Endrödy & Klimaszewski (1
TMSA
); Richtersveld, Brandkaross, Oranje, shorewashing, river,
28° 29' S
,
16° 41' E
,
2 viii 1989
, Endrödy & Klimaszewski (1
TMSA
); River at Elaandsbaai, brackish water,
32° 18' S
,
18° 21' E
,
24 viii 2004
, G. L. Challet (13
NMW
); Sout River at Hopefield,
33° 3' S
,
18° 21' E
,
24 viii 2004
, G. L. Challet (1
NMW
).
Distribution.
A wide distribution pattern, coastal or near coastal, from northernmost
Namibia
south to the Western Cape Province (
Fig. 23
).