''Agabetes acuductus'' is a species of
predaceous diving beetle
The Dytiscidae, from the Ancient Greek word δυτικός (''dystikos''), meaning "able to dive", are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a few species li ...
found in the United States and Canada.
Its habitat includes wooded
wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...
s, in the
leaf litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall, or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that has fallen to the ground. This detritus or dead organic material and its constituen ...
of shaded pools, and
cattail
''Typha'' is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrushStreeter D, Hart-Davies C, Hardcastle A, Cole F, Harper L. 2009. ...
ponds.
[D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). ''Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska''. NRC 43253.]
References
Further reading
* Arnett, R.H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (2000). ''American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
* Nilsson, Anders N. (2001). ''World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)'', 395.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Ross H. Arnett. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Webster, Reginald P. (2008). "New predaceous diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) records for New Brunswick and Canada with new distribution information on some rarely collected species". ''Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society, vol. 4'', 38–45.
Dytiscidae
Beetles described in 1828
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