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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Predaceous Diving Beetles (Dytiscidae) » Hydroporinae » Hyphydrini » Desmopachria » Desmopachria dispersa

Species Desmopachria dispersa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Hydroporinae
Tribe Hyphydrini
Genus Desmopachria
Species dispersa (Desmopachria dispersa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Desmopachria dispersa (Crotch)
Orig. Comb: Hydroporus dispersus Crotch 1873
Identification
Body broadly ovate, somewhat depressed; elytra and pronotum rather deeply and densely punctate; metacoxal plates relatively coarsely and densely punctate; (1)
Range
CA-TX, AR - Map (2)(3)
See Also
Desmopachria seminola Young 1951
Body more narrowly ovate and more convex; elytra and pronotum more finely and less densely punctate; metacoxal plates more finely and more sparsely punctate. (1)
Range: TX-FL (1)
Print References
Crotch, G.R. 1873. Revision of the Dytiscidae of the United States. Transactions of the America Entomological Society 4: 383-424.
Works Cited
1. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
2.Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska
D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. 2001. NRC 43253.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 11 May, 2011 - 3:01pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman
Last updated 28 November, 2020 - 1:25pm

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