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  8. Water Scavenger Beetle

genus

Water Scavenger Beetle

Tropisternus

Includes
10 native 1 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Tropisternus is a genus of hydrophilid beetles with 63 species in five subgenera in North and South America.

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Children

  • Collared Water Scavenger Beetle native
  • Lateral-lined Water Beetle native
  • Tropisternus quadristriatus native
  • Tropisternus blatchleyi native
  • Tropisternus affinis presumed native
  • Tropisternus columbianus presumed native
  • Tropisternus natator native
  • Tropisternus mixtus presumed native
  • Water Scavenger Beetle
  • Tropisternus sublaevis presumed native
  • Tropisternus glaber
  • Tropisternus apicipalpis presumed native
  • Tropisternus fuscitarsis

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native water scavenger beetle All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Collared Water Scavenger Beetle Tropisternus collaris 3,491 observations
  • Lateral-lined Water Beetle Tropisternus lateralis 3,401 observations
  • Tropisternus quadristriatus 141 observations
  • Tropisternus blatchleyi 100 observations
  • Tropisternus natator 19 observations

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