A preliminary checklist of the minute diving beetles of Belize (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini) Author Scheers, Kevin Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) & Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (NPO) (BINCO) Author Thomaes, Arno Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) text Belgian Journal of Entomology 2022 2022-01-26 125 1 15 journal article 298378 10.5281/zenodo.11583019 19dcb5c9-3669-4654-8067-48992a510cbc 2295-0214 11583019 9377F481-73E6-4496-B14A-9F5DD4CCFC1C Bidessonotus caraibus (Chevrolat, 1863) PUBLISHED RECORDS . YOUNG (1990) STUDIED MATERIAL . TOLEDO : Punta Gorda , shallow pool, 16°05'19,7"N , 88°48'53,4"W , 05.V.2015 , Leg. K. Scheers & A. Thomaes ( 1 ex. ) . DISTRIBUTION . Belize , Cuba ( Young, 1990 ; Miller, 2016). B. caraibus is known only from one record in the extreme north and another in the south of Belize ( Fig. 2 D ). HABITAT . Nothing is known on the habitat preference of this species. The single specimen found during this survey was collected at coastal level in a shallow pool on exposed substratum in open vegetation ( Fig. 5 ). NOTE . The disjunct distribution of this species is notable and could reflect a lack of sampling effort in the intermediate areas, but could also be an indication that the Belizean and Cuban populations may not be conspecific.