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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Predaceous Diving Beetles (Dytiscidae) » Dytiscinae » Hydaticini » Hydaticus » subgenus Hydaticus (Hydaticus subgenus Hydaticus) » Hydaticus aruspex
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Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hydaticus aruspex - male
Copyright © 2008 Tim Loh

Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hydaticus aruspex - Male
U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
May 15, 2008
Size: 14 mm long
Collected from a stormwater pond; keyed this to Hydaticus..species unknown...

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Contributed by Tim Loh on 15 November, 2008 - 12:46am
Last updated 24 June, 2014 - 3:18am

Moved
Moved from Hydaticus.
… tom murray, 11 January, 2009 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

H. aruspex
Diagnostic characters: black body and frons, yellow-reddish spots on frons, elytra with sharply delimited yellow margins (Larson et al. 2001)
H. aruspex is one of 2 Hydaticus species in Alberta; the other, H. piceus is brownish in colour, has a brown-rufous frons, and has no yellow lateral margins on the elytra.
… Tim Loh, 11 January, 2009 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

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