Neptosternus taprobanicus

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Neptosternus taprobanicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Adephaga
Superfamily:
Dytiscoidea
Family:
Dytiscidae
Genus:
Neptosternus
Species:
N. taprobanicus
Binomial name
Neptosternus taprobanicus
Sharp, 1890

Neptosternus taprobanicus, is a species of predaceous diving beetle found in Sri Lanka. [1] [2]

Description

This long oval beetle has a body size of about 3 mm. Head and pronotum testaceous with a narrow dark-brown band found at the posterior margin of the pronotum. Pronotum yellowish with some darkened areas along anterior and posterior margins. Pronotal length is 2.6 to 3.7 mm. Elytral length is about 3.0 to 3.1 mm. Elytra dark brown in color with a testaceous lateral margin. Elytron with two separate subbasal yellow spots. The median and apical spots are distinctly connected along the lateral border. Elytral median presuturai yellow spot confluent with other yellow markings laterally, conjointly forming a more or less transverse spot. [3] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Neptosternus taprobanicus Sharp, 1890". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  2. ↑ "Two new species of Neptosternus SHARP 1882 from Southern India (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)" (PDF). Linzer biol. Beitr. 31/1 57–62 30.7.1999. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ↑ "Notes on the genera Neptosternus SHARP and Copelatus ERICHSON from Sri Lanka and India with the description of new species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau 60 19–31 Wien, 199Ö. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  4. ↑ "Results of the austrian-ceylonese hydrobiological mission 1970" (PDF). Bull. Fish. Res. Stn, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Vol. 24, Nos.l & 2-pp. 83-87s 1973. Retrieved 2021-08-07.


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