Freshwater Macroinvertebrates in Hong Kong

Hydroglyphus sp.

Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Hydroporinae
Tribe: Bidessini

Habitat: Wetland

General appearance: Small size. Fore and mesotarsi are pseudotetramerous (4th segment inconspicuous). Elytra with discal striae being the prosecution of the latero-basal striae of pronotum.

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Cranium and pronotum (dorsal view)
Head in ventral view
Right protarsi and mesotarsi
Hind coxal process
Right hind tarsi (ventral view)

 

Reference:
Pederzani, F. (1995). Keys to the identification of the genera and subgenera of adult Dytiscidae (sensu lato) of the world (Coleoptera Dytiscidae). Atti dell'Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, a, 244, 5-83.

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