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Scientific Name Specimen Records Dorsal photo.
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Photo by Charles Staines.
Uvarus suburbanus (Fall) ATBI Database
Common Name
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Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Dytiscidae
Animals Arthropods Insects Beetles Predaceous Diving Beetles

Physical characteristics:

Adult: Color: head reddish-yellow; antennae pale basally, darker toward apex; palps yellow; pronotum reddish-yellow with basal margin between grooves black; elytra yellow to pale brown with indistinct darker markings; venter yellow to reddish-brown; legs reddish-brown. Head: sparsely finely punctate. Pronotum: finely, sparsely punctate. Elytra: with small, sparse punctures, punctures larger and denser basally near suture and near apex. (Larson et al. 2000)

Adult body length: 1.7-1.9 mm.

Larvae: Unknown.

Distribution:

Global

This species is known from New York, Maryland, and Indiana (Larson et al. 2000).

Park

Wolfe (1979) reported this species from the park.

Natural History:

Habitat

This species has been collected in woodland pools and adults at lights (Larson et al. 2000).

Conservation Biology

This species is widespread, common, and not globally threatened.

Acknowledgements

Text:

Charles Staines.

Photographs:

Charles Staines.

Web page:

Charles Wilder.

References

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.

Wolfe, G. W. 1979. A zoogeographic and taxonomic analysis of the Dytiscidae of Tennessee with an emphasis on the pulcher-undulatus species group of Hydroporus (Adephaga: Coleoptera). Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Tennessee . 153 pp.