Amphizoa insolens

Amphizoa insolens is a species of aquatic beetles. It is found in North America from Alaska to southern California.[1][2][3][4]

Amphizoa insolens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Amphizoidae
Genus: Amphizoa
Species:
A. insolens
Binomial name
Amphizoa insolens
LeConte, 1853

Adult A. insolens beetles are between 10.9 and 15 millimeters long. Their front tarsi lack well-developed grooves with hair-like setae.[1][2][4]

References
  1. Nilsson, Anders N., and Bernhard J. van Vondel (2005), World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 7: Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga)
  2. "Key to species of Amphizoa adults". Archived from the original on 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2015-01-14. Illinois Natural History Survey
  3. Kavanaugh, David H. (1986) A systematic review of amphizoid beetles (Amphizoidae: Coleoptera) and their phylogenetic relationships to other Adephaga, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 44, no. 6
  4. Amphizoa insolens. Archived 2014-12-31 at the Wayback Machine California Beetles Project.


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