Antiporus willyamsi

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Antiporus willyamsi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Genus: Antiporus
Species:
A. willyamsi
Binomial name
Antiporus willyamsi
Watts, 1997
Antiporus willyamsi
Holotype site (SAMA 25-000264) [1]

Antiporus willyamsi 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, in the drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones of Victoria, and South Australia, with the type specimen collected in 1983 [1] 10 km south of Robe, South Australia. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 South Australian Museum (2019). "South Australian Museum Terrestrial Invertebrate Images. Occurrence: 1653483488" . Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Species Antiporus willyamsi 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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