Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1

Microdytes maculatus Motschulsky

Description

Microdytes maculatus (Motschulsky)

Hydrovatus maculatus Motschulsky 1859: 42; Sharp 1882: 814, 973; Regimbart 1899: 231; Zaitzev 1915: 293; Zimmermann 1920: 34.

Desmopachria maculatus, Gschwendtner 1936: 367; Balfour-Browne 1946: 106.

Microdytes maculatus, Vazirani 1969: 301; Vazirani 1977: 24; Sato 1981: 68; Wewalka 1997: 27; Nilsson 2001: 229.

Distribution. Thailand; India: “Ind. or.”, Southern Andaman Islands (Fig. 13).

Notes

Published as part of Miller, Kelly B. & Wewalka, Günther, 2010, Microdytes Balfour-Browne of India with description of three new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae), pp. 26-36 in Zootaxa 2420 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.204746

Files

Files (845 Bytes)

Name Size Download all
md5:0b9ed00f5460fadceb0f47cc96a53b85
845 Bytes Download

System files (11.3 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:c777a930781ab42cc79e6c5b10d3821e
11.3 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Motschulsky
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Microdytes
Species
maculatus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Motschulsky, V. de. (1859) Insectes des Indes orientales, et de contrees analogues. 2: de Serie. Etudes Entomologiques Motschulsky, 8, 25 - 48.
  • Sharp, D. (1882) On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, (2) 2, 179 - 1003.
  • Regimbart, M. (1899) Revision des Dytiscidae Indo-Sino-Malaisie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 68, 186 - 367.
  • Zaitzev, Ph. (1915) Les coleopteres aquatiques de la collection Motschulsky. I. Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Ezhegodnik Zoologichescogo Muzeja Akademii Nauk, 20, 239 - 295.
  • Zimmermann, A. (1920) Pars 71. Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphozoidae. in Schenkenberg, S. (editor). Coleopterorum Catalogus, Berlin, W. Junk, 326 pp.
  • Gschwendtner, L. (1936) Interessante und neue Schwimmkafer des indischen Museums in Calcutta. Records of the Indian Museum, 37 (1935) (3), 365 - 374.
  • Balfour-Browne, J. (1946) Microdytes gen. nov. dytiscidarum (Hyphydrini). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 46, 106 - 108.
  • Vazirani, T. G. (1969) Contribution to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera), 2. A review of the subfamilies Noterinae, Laccophilinae, Dytiscinae and Hydroporinae (in part) from India. Oriental Insects, 2 (1968), 221 - 341.
  • Vazirani, T. G. (1977) Records of the zoological survey of India, Catalogue of Oriental Insects. Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 6, 1 - 111.
  • Sato, M. (1981) Notes on the genus Microdytes (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) and its ally from Nepal. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonensis, 54, 67 - 72.
  • Bistrom, O., Nilsson, A. & Wewalka, G. (1997) A systematic review of the tribes Hyphydrini Sharp and Pachydrini n. trib. (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Entomologica Fennica, 8, 57 - 82.
  • Nilsson, A. N. (2001) Dytisciae - in: World Catalogue of Insects, 3, 1 - 395.