Limbodessus bennetti

Limbodessus bennetti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Dytiscidae
Genus:	Limbodessus
Species:	L. bennetti
Binomial name
	Limbodessus bennetti; Watts & McRae, 2013

Limbodessus bennetti is a carnivorous subterranean water beetle. It is the first stygobitic Dytiscidae to be recorded in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Of all species currently described, Limbodessus bennetti is most closely related to stygobitic members of the genus Limbodessus from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Western Australia. It has been recorded from a single alluvial aquifer in the northern Pilbara.

Description

1.65 mm in length and relatively flat. Disc of elytra (forewings) slightly depressed, minor widening of elytra in middle, reduced hindwing.

Etymology

This species is named in honour of Sean R. Bennett.

References

Watts, C.H.S.; McRae, J. (2013). "Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 28 (2): 141–143. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.28(2).2013.141-143.

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[1] Watts, C.H.S.; McRae, J. (2013). "Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 28 (2): 141–143. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.28(2).2013.141-143.