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Phelea breviceps Hansen, 1999 (a species of scavenging water-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Fikacek, M. & Watts, C.H.S. (2015). Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): Description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili. Zootaxa 3980(3):427-434.

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Hydrophiloidea

Family: Hydrophilidae

Subfamily: Hydrophilinae

Tribe: Anacaenini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): (not yet documented)
Flightedness: (not yet documented)

Source information on taxonomy or morphology (*primary taxonomic source)
Fikacek, M. & Watts, C.H.S. (2015). Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): Description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili. Zootaxa 3980(3):427-434.

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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