| Scientific Name | Specimen Records |  Click photo to enlarge. Photo by Charles Staines. |
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| Celina hubbelli Young | ATBI Database | ||||
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| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | |
| Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Coleoptera | Dytiscidae | |
| Animals | Arthropods | Insects | Beetles | Predaceous Diving Beetles | |
Physical characteristics:
Adult: Elongate; subparallel. Color: reddish-yellow to reddish-brown with basal ¼ th of elytra and pronotum paler. Pronotum with punctures large laterally, fine but evident on disc. Elytra coarsely, irregularly punctate, each puncture with short hair; in lateral view lateral margin sinuate. Apex of elytra and abdomen spinulose (Larson et al. 2000).
Adult body length: 3.6-4.3 mm.
Larvae: Unknown.
Distribution:
Global
This species is known from Ontario and Quebec south to Florida, west to Michigan, Kansas, and Texas (Larson et al. 2000).
Park
This species is only known from the Cades Cove area. Specimens have been taken in a permanent pond in August.
Natural History:
Habitat
This species is found in shallow pools and ponds with cattails (Typha) (Hilsenhoff 1994). Ciegler (2003) reported the species from seepages and that adults are attracted to lights.
Ecology
Members of this genus may use the spines at the apex of the elytra and abdomen to pierce cattails and obtain oxygen without swimming to the surface (Hilsenhoff 1994).
Conservation Biology
This species is common, widespread, and not globally threatened.
Acknowledgements
Text:
Charles Staines.
Photographs:Charles Staines.
Web page:
References
Ciegler, J. C. 2003. Water beetles of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Scirtidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae, and Chelonariidae). Biota of South Carolina . Volume 3. Clemson University, Clemson. 207 pp.
Hilsenhoff, W. L. 1994. Dytiscidae and Noteridae of Wisconsin (Coleoptera). V. Distribution, habitat, life cycle, and identification of Hydroporinae, except Hydroporus Clairville sensu lato. Great Lakes Entomologist 26:275-295.
Larson, D. J. Y. Alarie, & R. E. Roughley. 2000. Predacious diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska . NRC Press. Ottawa . 982 pp.
