Published September 4, 2008 | Version v1
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Hydrobius melaenus

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada

Description

Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824)

Kings Co.: Woodville Mills, 23.VII.2001, C.G. Majka, under stone beside small stream, (1, CGMC).

Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island, this species prefers running water habitats in places protected from currents (Smetana 1988).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher, 2008, The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition, pp. 239-260 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 252, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401

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Biodiversity

Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Hydrobius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Germar
Species
melaenus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824) sec. Majka, 2008

References

  • Smetana A (1988) Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142: 1 - 316.