Hydroporus carstengroehni Balke et al. 2010 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: M. Balke, A. Beigel, and L. Hendrich. 2010. Hydroporus carstengroehni sp. n. und zwei unbestimmte Hydroporinae aus dem baltischen Bernstein (Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Nachrichtenblatt Bayerischen Entomologen 59:2-8

Belongs to Hydroporus according to M. Balke et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Hydroporus acutangulus, Hydroporus clessini, Hydroporus discretus, Hydroporus edenianus, Hydroporus inanimatus, Hydroporus inundatus, Hydroporus lapideus, Hydroporus lapponum, Hydroporus morio, Hydroporus multipunctatus, Hydroporus notabilis, Hydroporus palustris, Hydroporus planus, Hydroporus pleistocenicus, Hydroporus praedorsalis, Hydroporus praenigrita, Hydroporus praenivalis, Hydroporus sandbergeri, Hydroporus sectus, Hydroporus statzi, Hydroporus striola, Hydroporus subarcticus, Hydroporus trimaculatus

Type specimen: GPIH 4524, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection

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