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Gyrinus bifarius Fall 1922

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver ,, Canada

Description

Gyrinus bifarius Fall, 1922

Gyrinus bifarius was reported from New Brunswick by Oygur and Wolfe (1991) and Roughley (1991), from Nova Scotia by Roughley (1991), and from Prince Edward Island by Majka (2008) (Fig. 8). Morrissette (1979) noted records from lakes and riv-

ers while Oygur and Wolfe (1991) reported that 74% of specimens came from lotic habitats.

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Kenner, Rex, 2009, The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition, pp. 355-372 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on pages 362-363, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.216, http://zenodo.org/record/576544

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Biodiversity

Family
Gyrinidae
Genus
Gyrinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fall
Species
bifarius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gyrinus bifarius Fall, 1922 sec. Majka & Kenner, 2009

References

  • Fall HC (1922) The North American species of Gyrinus (Coleoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 47: 269 - 306.
  • Oygur S, Wolfe GW (1991) Classification, distribution and phylogeny of North American (north of Mexico) species of Gyrinus Muller (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 207: 1 - 97.
  • Roughley RE (1991) Family Gyrinidae: Whirligig Beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Ottawa, Ontario: Agriculture Canada, publication 1861 / E: pp. 72 - 673. http: // www. canacoll. org / Coleo / Checklist / PDF files / GYRINIDAE. pdf [accessed 29 June 2009]
  • Majka CG (2008) The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition. In: Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 239 - 260. http: // pensoftonline. net / zookeys / index. php / journal / article / viewFile / 25 / 37 [accessed 29 June 2009]
  • Morrissette R (1979) Les coleopteres Gyrinidae du Quebec. Cordulia, Supplement 8: 1 - 43.