Check List 17(2): 633-636, doi: 10.15560/17.2.633
Discovery of the Australian diving beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922) in New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)
Suriani Surbakti‡, Michael Balke§, Lars Hendrich|‡ Universitas Cenderawasih, Jayapura, Indonesia§ Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munchen, Germany| Zoologische Staatssammlung, Muenchen, Germany
Corresponding author: Michael Balke ( balke.m@snsb.de ) Academic editor: Kirill Makarov © Suriani Surbakti, Michael Balke, Lars Hendrich. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Surbakti S, Balke M, Hendrich L (2021) Discovery of the Australian diving beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922) in New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). Check List 17(2): 633-636. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.2.633 |  |
Abstract
The diving beetle genus Neobidessodes Hendrich & Balke, 2009 contains 10 species. Nine of them were considered endemic to Australia, one of them to the Trans Fly Savanna and Grasslands Ecoregion of New Guinea island. Here, we provide the first report of one of the Australian species, Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922), from the same region of New Guinea. We suggest that more focused research will reveal the occurrence of far more Australian diving beetle species in that region of New Guinea.
Keywords
Aquatic Coleoptera, Australian fauna, savanna and grassland region