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Hydrovatus cuspidatus

Description

*3. Hydrovatus cuspidatus (Kunze, 1818)

Local references: Not reported earlier.

Material: western suburb of Kaliningrad, 54.71°N, 20.40°E, 04.05.2020, 1 ex., in shallow water of artificial lake.

Comments: New species for Kaliningrad Region and Eastern Baltic region. The nearest known localities for this species are in northern Poland and Denmark (Tamutis et al. 2011). The species probably extends the distribution range northwards nowadays and occurs in Kaliningrad region at northern periphery of main distributional area. The new locality is the northernmost known in Russia (Prokin 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, pp. 13-31 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602099

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2020-04-05
Verbatim event date
2020-04-05
Scientific name authorship
Kunze
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Hydrovatus
Species
cuspidatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrovatus cuspidatus (Kunze, 1818) sec. Alekseev, Drotikova, Rozhina & Bukejs, 2021

References

  • Tamutis, V., Tamute B., Ferenca R. 2011. A catalogue of Lithuanian beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera). ZooKeys, 121: 1 - 494.
  • Prokin A. 2005. New records of water beetles (Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, Dytiscidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae) from the middle Russian forest-steppe. Latvijas Entomologs, 43: 138 - 142.