Austrodytes

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Austrodytes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Genus: Austrodytes
Watts, 1978

Austrodytes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae found only in northern Australia. [1] [2] It was first described in 1978 by Chris Watts. [2] [3] The genus contains these two species: [4]

References

  1. Miller, K.B.; J. Bergsten (2016). Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae. JHU Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN   978-1-4214-2054-7.
  2. 1 2 "Genus Austrodytes Watts, 1978". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
  3. CHS Watts (1978). "A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)". Australian Journal of Zoology. Supplementary Series. 26 (57): 1–166. doi:10.1071/AJZS057. ISSN   0310-9089. Wikidata   Q54576498.
  4. Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2021). "A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)" (PDF) (1.I.2021 ed.).