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Species Dryops viennensis

Long-toed Water Beetle - Dryops viennensis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Byrrhoidea

Family Dryopidae (Long-toed Water Beetles)

Genus Dryops

Species viennensis (Dryops viennensis)

Explanation of Names

Dryops viennensis (Laporte 1840) [authorship "Heer 1841" indicated in most American sources might be in error]

Range

native to w. Palaearctic(1), adventive in NA (NB, QC, NH)(2)(DL)

Habitat

along rivers and larger brooks under or among cobblestones above the waterline but close to the edge of the water(2)

Season

Jul-Sep in NB(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: TBA[cite:]

Works Cited

1.	Coleoptera Poloniae

2.	New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Dryopidae, Elmidae, Psephenidae, and Ptilodactylidae Webster R.P., DeMerchant I. 2012. ZooKeys 179: 67–75.

Contributed by v belov on 19 December, 2012 - 11:54am
Last updated 19 December, 2012 - 1:33pm

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