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Limnebius discolor Casey

Description

Limnebius discolor Casey

Limnebius discolor Casey, 1900:52

This species was previously known from Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia. However, these state records are each represented by only a single locality. The following new records provide data for Canada, New Brunswick, and several other localities in Indiana and Virginia.

New records: Canada: New Brunswick, Fundy National Park: Laverty Brook, 15.vii.1989, leg. Paget E. Perkins & P. D. Perkins (30 MCZ); U.S.A.: Indiana, Brown Co., New York, Lewis Co., Whetstone Creek, Whetstone Gulf State Park, (43°42’N, 75°29’W), 14.vii.2003, leg. M. E. and P. D. Perkins (10 PDP); Washington Co., Center White Creek, 3 mi. NE town of Center White Creek on Lincoln Hill Rd., 27.vi.2003, leg. P. D. Perkins (13 PDP); White Creek, 4 mi. NE Cambridge on Ash Grove Rd., 28.vi.2003, leg. P. D. Perkins (26 PDP); Virginia, Bath Co., Indian Draft, just above Rt. 678 bridge, (38°3’12’’N, 79°36’47’’W), 28.ix.2006, leg. D. Kirk & F. Huber (2 MCZ); Lick Run at junction of Rt. 42 and Rt. 39 near Millboro Springs, (37°59’46’’N, 79°37’23’’W), 11.x.2006, leg. D. Kirk & F. Huber (6 MCZ); Pig Run, upstream from Rt. 633 bridge, (38°0’10’’N, 79°37’2’’W), 28.ix.2006, leg. D. Kirk & F. Huber (10 MCZ); Proctor Draft at Rt. 663 crossing, (38°1’20’’N, 79°36’59’’E), 28.ix.2006, leg. D. Kirk & F. Huber (10 MCZ).

Notes

Published as part of Perkins, Philip D., 2023, New Neotropical and Nearctic species of water beetles in the genera Hydraena Kugelann and Ochthebius Leach, a key to North American genera and subgenera of the family, new distribution records, and a synopsis of ecology, behavior and morphology related to aquatic life (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 5367 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145106

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ , PDP
Event date
1989-07-15 , 2003-06-27 , 2003-06-28 , 2003-07-14 , 2006-09-28 , 2006-10-11
Family
Hydraenidae
Genus
Limnebius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Casey
Species
discolor
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1989-07-15 , 2003-06-27 , 2003-06-28 , 2003-07-14 , 2006-09-28 , 2006-10-11