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Belonging to a group commonly called Large Water Beetles, Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) brevispina is found across mainland Australia.
The follow photographs are of a water beetle found on the paving in a garden in Alice Springs. The beetle was originally on its back and it looked like it was dying.
See our section on Insects > Beetles | Coleoptera | Hydrophilus
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Hydrophiloidea
- Family: Hydrophilidae
- Subfamily: Hydrophilinae
- Tribe: Hydrophilini
- Subtribe: Hydrophilina
- Genus: Hydrophilus
- Subgenus: infageneric Hydrophilus
- Species: Hydrophilus brevispina
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Adam Yates, Meg Mooney and Paul Smith for ID, member of Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/alicefieldnats/
- Hydrophilus (Hydrophilus) brevispina Fairmaire, 1879, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/93a83c02-3e48-4202-a274-25c8110b4944
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