Carabdytes plantaris
| Carabdytes plantaris | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Genus: | Rhantus |
| Species: | R. plantaris
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhantus plantaris Sharp, 1882
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Rhantus plantaris is a naturally uncommon species of diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. For over a century, it was known from just a single specimen collected in 1880 "near Dunedin", and doubts were cast on whether it was actually a New Zealand species at all. In 1986, it was rediscovered when several were collected from a roadside pond near Lake Ellesmere.[1] Rhantus plantaris is now classed as "naturally uncommon" by the Department of Conservation.[2]
References
- ^ Balke, Michael; Kovac, Damir; Hendrich, Lars; Flechtner, Günther (2000). "Rediscovery of the New Zealand diving beetle Rhantus plantaris Sharp, and notes on the south west Australian R. simulans Régimbart, with an identification key (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 27 (3): 223–227. doi:10.1080/03014223.2000.9518229. ISSN 0301-4223.
- ^ Grainger, Natasha; Collier, Kevin; Hitchmough, Rod; Harding, Jon; Smith, Brian; Sutherland, Darin (2014). "Conservation status of New Zealand freshwater invertebrates, 2013" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 8.
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