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Hydraena (Holcohydraena) occidentalis Perkins

Description

Hydraena (Holcohydraena) occidentalis Perkins

Hydraena occidentalis Perkins 1980: 78

The new records below document two new localities, including the first record for Baja California, and a new depository for identified specimens of this species. The currently known distribution is from British Columbia, south thru Washington, Oregon and California to Baja California.

New records: U.S.A.: California: Orange Co., San Juan Canyon, 16.vii.1979, leg. C. N. McKinnon (1 TAMU); Mexico: Baja California, Sur, Sierra Laguna, La Laguna, 17 air mi. ENE Todos Santos!, 12–18.xii.1979, leg. J. Doyen & W. Tschinkel (3 MCZ).

Notes

Published as part of Perkins, Philip D., 2023, 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), pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 5367 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145106

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TAMU, MCZ
Event date
1979-07-16
Family
Hydraenidae
Genus
Hydraena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Perkins
Species
occidentalis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1979-07-16/12-18

References

  • Perkins, P. D. (1980) Aquatic beetles of the family Hydraenidae in the Western Hemisphere: classification, biogeography and inferred phylogeny (Insecta: Coleoptera). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 16, 3 - 554. [Available free from the Biodiversity Heritage Library website]