Hydrochus amictus Scudder 1890 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734

Belongs to Hydrochus according to S. H. Scudder 1900

See also Scudder 1890 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxa: Hydrochus elongatus, Hydrochus relictus

Type specimen: Hinde 14504, an elytra (fragmentary elytron). Its type locality is Lake Erie near Cleveland, which is in a Pleistocene lacustrine deltaic siltstone in Ohio.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lake Erie near Cleveland

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