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Platynectes decempunctatus (Fabricius, 1775) (a species of diving-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence

Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp. (as Platynectes decempunctatus)

TMAG collections

Classification

Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Adephaga

Superfamily: Caraboidea

Family: Dytiscidae

Subfamily: Agabinae

Tribe: Agabini

Morphology

Typical length (mm): 9
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight

Ecology

(ecology not yet documented)

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