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)
Author
Perkins, Philip D.
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-07
5367
1
1
86
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5367.1.1/52225
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1
1175-5334
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Ochthebius
(
s.str.
)
rectusalsus
Perkins
Ochthebius rectusalsus
Perkins 1980: 329
The
new records below document new localities and two new depositories for identified specimens of this rarely collected species, raising the number of identified specimens in museum collections from 54 to 57.
The
species is coastal, presently known from the
San Francisco bay
area,
California
, south to
Baja California
,
Mexico
.
One specimen
known from the coast of Washington
.
New
records:
Mexico
:
Baja California
,
Miller’s Landing
,
15.iv.1987
, leg.
F. Andrews
&
A. Gilbert
(1
CDFA
)
;
Sur
,
Guerrero
Negro
,
16.iv.1987
, leg.
F. Andrews
&
A. Gilbert
(1
CDFA
)
;
U.S.A.
:
California
,
Orange Co.
,
Bolsa Chica Marsh
,
15.xii.1970
, leg.
G. L. Challet
(2
TAMU
)
.