The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Coleoptera

(Water Beetles)

HYDROPHILIDAE

Tropisternus lateralis (Fabricius)




 Photogallery: 

 

 

Synonyms: 

As Subspecies:
                    Tropisternus lateralis nimbatus (Say)
                                              (Cook 1997; Cook & Kennedy 1997, 2000; Foster 1972; Jasper 1996; Lind & Bane 1980; Reddell
                                                1966)

 
Distribution Citations

1949 Glass

1966 Reddell

1972 Foster
1974 RET Inc.

1980 Lind & Bane
1981 Merickel & Wangberg
1988 Bacak-Clements

 

1996 Jasper
1996 Wolf
1997 Cook
1997 Cook & Kennedy
1997 Croyle
1998 Moorhead Hall Willig
1999 Wolf et al.

2000 Cook & Kennedy

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-predator/herbivore (Moorhead, Hall & Willig 1998)

-not drought resistant (Moorhead, Hall & Willig 1998)

-reported from a cave in Comal county as an accidental (Reddell 1966)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010

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