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Ochthebius attritus LeConte

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Ochthebius (s.str.) attritus LeConte

Ochthebius attritus LeConte 1878:380

The following new records represent first species deposition in two of the museums cited. This species is halophilic, with a wide distribution pattern; collection records are documented for the Antilles and mainland coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Also known from one locality in easternmost Brazil.

New records: Dominican Republic: Pedernales, Cabo Rojo, 18–23.viii.1988, leg. M. A. Ivie, T. K. Philips, & K. A. Johnson (50 MCZ, MTEC (Bozeman)); Mexico: Guerrero, 17 mi. E. Acapulco, 9.vii.1974, leg. Clark, Murray, Ashe, Schaffner (20 TAMU (College Station)); Sinaloa, Mazatlan, 2.xii.1984, leg. G. E. Bohart (1 MCZ); U.S.A.: Texas, Jefferson Co., J. D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area, 1.2 mi. S. Lost Lake, 23.i.1994, leg. R. C. Vogtsberger & H. E. Bruhl (5 MCZ, TAMU (College Station)).

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 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145106

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Collection code
MCZ , MCZ, MTEC , MCZ, TAMU , TAMU
Event date
1974-07-09 , 1984-12-02 , 1988-08-18 , 1994-01-23
Verbatim event date
1974-07-09 , 1984-12-02 , 1988-08-18/23 , 1994-01-23
Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Hydraenidae
Genus
Ochthebius
Species
attritus
Taxon rank
species