Antiporus pembertoni

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Antiporus pembertoni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Genus: Antiporus
Species:
A. pembertoni
Binomial name
Antiporus pembertoni
Watts, 1997
Antiporus pembertoni
Holotype site (SAMA 25-000265) [1]

Antiporus pembertoni is a predaceous diving beetle in the family Antiporus , first described in 1997 by Chris H.S. Watts. [2] [3]

It is found only in Australia (and known only from its type locality) in Western Australia, with the type specimen having been collected in 1987 [1] 15 km north-west of Pemberton, Western Australia. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 South Australian Museum (2019). "South Australian Museum Terrestrial Invertebrate Images. Occurrence: 1653483464" . Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Species Antiporus pembertoni Watts, 1997". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  3. ↑ Chris H.S. Watts (1997). "Four new species of Antiporus Sharp (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from Australia, with notes on A. femoralis (Boh.) and A. interrogationis (Clark)". Records of the South Australian Museum. 30 (1): 35–42. ISSN   0376-2750. Wikidata   Q126900733.


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