Water beetles (several families)


Water beetles (several families)

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24 Aug 2025
Thanks Kim

Allodessus bistrigatus
KimberiRP wrote:
24 Aug 2025
At "less than 5mm", this cannot be Eretes australis, which is 9-15mm. The two species also differ in their markings, and in the outline of the pronotum and elytra.

Allodessus bistrigatus
1 Aug 2025
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whirligig_Beetle_larva,_genus_Dineutus_(7415159326).jpg

Dineutus (genus)
KimberiRP wrote:
17 Jun 2025
Sigara (Tropocorixa) sp. in the 'Water boatmen' family, Corixidae . ALA has records of two species in your district: S. (T.) neboissi and S. (T.) sublaevifrons, but I don't know which this is.
btw Tropocorixa is a subgenus within genus Sigara

Sigara (genus)
KimberiRP wrote:
17 Jun 2025
Hydrophilus sp., in Hydrophilidae

Hydrophilus sp. (genus)
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