Batrachomatus wingii (Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael 2013)
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Dytiscidae
Genus: Batrachomatus
Name
Batrachomatus wingii Hendrich, Lars, 2013 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Batrachomatus wingii Hendrich, Lars, 2013, ZooKeys 293: 54-60.
Description
Description. Measurements. TL = 6.9-7.8 mm, TL-H = 6.2-7.2 mm; MW = 3.2-3.7 mm. Colour. Black, anterior part of head reddish brown, pronotum with broad yellow lateral margins, elytron with a narrow yellow band of which apical 1/3 close to side and basal 2/3 some distance from side (Fig. 7). Underside and parts of head reddish brown,appendages reddish brown. Structure and sculpture. Body outline elongate oval, flattened, pointed apically. Dorsal surface shiny, head, pronotum and elytral surface densely and evenly covered with small punctures, reticulation absent. Serial punctures on elytron sparse, weakly impressed, indistinct. Sides of pronotum moderately curved and convergent anteriorly. Ventral surface very densely and minutely punctured. Prosternal process flat, broad, parallel-sided, weakly and narrowly grooved in midline, and weakly margined at side, tip bluntly pointed, apex pointed. Metacoxal lines well separated, subparallel, reaching almost to hind margin of metaventrite. Male. Pro- and mesotarsi stouter than in female, furnished beneath with dense, short, stout setae arranged in groups, many of the setae ending in minute suction cups. Aedeagus: median lobe (Fig. 12 a, b); paramere (Fig. 12 c).
Distribution
Distribution. Tropical northern Australia. Occurring from the northern Pilbara and the Kimberley region in the northwest, the Daly River, Darwin area and Kakadu National Park in the north, to the Atherton Tableland in northern Queensland, and along the east coast south to Rockhampton (Fig. 14).
Taxon Treatment
- Hendrich, Lars; Balke, Michael; 2013: Revision of Australian Matini diving beetles based on morphological and molecular data (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Matinae), with description of a new species ZooKeys, 293: 54-60. doi
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