Agabetes acuductus is a species of predaceous diving beetle found in the United States and Canada.[1][2][3] Its habitat includes wooded wetlands, in the leaf litter of shaded pools, and cattail ponds.[4]
Agabetes acuductus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Dytiscidae |
Subfamily: | Laccophilinae |
Genus: | Agabetes |
Species: | A. acuductus
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Binomial name | |
Agabetes acuductus (Harris 1828)
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Synonyms | |
Colymbetes acuductus Harris, 1825 |
References
edit- ^ "Agabetes acuductus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Agabetes acuductus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Agabetes acuductus Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC 43253.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Nilsson, Anders N. (2001). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera), 395.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Ross H. Arnett. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Webster, Reginald P. (2008). "New predaceous diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) records for New Brunswick and Canada with new distribution information on some rarely collected species". Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society, vol. 4, 38–45.