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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Crawling Water Beetles (Haliplidae) » Peltodytes » Peltodytes litoralis

Species Peltodytes litoralis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Print References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Haliplidae (Crawling Water Beetles)
Genus Peltodytes
Species litoralis (Peltodytes litoralis)
Explanation of Names
Peltodytes litoralis Matheson 1912
Size
3.5 mm (Matheson 1912)
Range
IL, IN, KS, TX
Habitat
mainly in intermittent streams (Jasper 1996)
Print References
Jasper S.K. (1996) Habitat selection in the family Haliplidae (Coleoptera) in central Texas, east of the Colorado River. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station. 306 pp.
Matheson R. (1912) The Haliplidae of North America, north of Mexico. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 20(3): 156-193. Full PDF
Contributed by Tim Loh on 8 December, 2010 - 2:35am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 November, 2016 - 7:13pm

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