A revision of the Australian humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1346, 2006, Pages 1-396

  Perkins, Philip D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic insects; Australia; Coleoptera; Holotype digital images; Humicolous insects; Hydraenidae; Hygropetric microhabitats; Larval morphology; New species; New subgenera; Tympanogaster

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; COLEOPTERA; EPACRIS; HEXAPODA; HYDRAENIDAE; INSECTA; JUGA; MACROGNATHUS; MODULATRIX; NOTHOFAGUS; OCHTHEBIUS;

EID: 33751007560     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1346.1.1     Document Type: Review

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