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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

Species Hydaticus aruspex

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range
Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hydaticus aruspex - female Diving beetle - Hydaticus aruspex Rhantus sp.? - Hydaticus aruspex Unknown Beetle - Hydaticus aruspex Dytiscid - Hydaticus aruspex Dytiscid - Hydaticus aruspex Hydaticus aruspex Hydaticus aruspex - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Dytiscinae
Tribe Hydaticini
Genus Hydaticus
No Taxon (subgenus Hydaticus)
Species aruspex (Hydaticus aruspex)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=modestus (Sharp 1882)
Explanation of Names
Hydaticus aruspex (Clark 1864)
Identification
body and frons black, yellow-reddish spots on frons, elytra with sharply delimited yellow margins (Larson et al. 2001)
(H. piceus is brownish, with frons brown-rufous and no yellow lateral margins on the elytra)
Range
holarctic; transcontinental in NA
Contributed by tom murray on 11 January, 2009 - 11:30am
Additional contributions by t.loh, v belov
Last updated 10 January, 2012 - 11:09pm

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