Chostonectes gigas

Taxonavigation

Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Hydroporinae
Tribus: Hydroporini
Genus: Chostonectes

Name

Chostonectes gigas (Boheman, 1858)

• original combination: Hydroporus gigas

Type locality

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Type material

Syntypes in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Images

Figure 1. Chostonectes gigas. (Photo: Michael Balke)

References

• Balke, M. 1995: The Hydroporini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae) of New Guinea: systematics, distribution and origin of the fauna. Invertebrate taxonomy, 9(5): 1009-1019. doi PDF
• Wewalka, G. 1994: A new species of Chostonectes from Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen, 46(3-4): 140-142. PDF

Online resources

• Australian Faunal Directory
• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus