Water Beetle Hyphydrus lyratus Swartz, 1808
Fauna Portal species: 11044
Diagnosis
An oval shaped orange beetle with distinctive black markings on the elytra.
Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Distribution
Australia wide.
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1997): A new Hyphydrus species from Indonesia with a list of and a key to the Oriental and Australasian species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 45: 305 - 313