''Agabus adustus'' is a species of predatory diving
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
belonging to the family
Dytiscidae
The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "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 live ...
. It is restricted to the
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over ...
.
[Nilsson, Anders N. "A world catalogue of the family Dytiscidae, or the diving beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)." Umeå (2013).]
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Beetles described in 1954
Agabus (beetle)
Fauna of the Himalayas
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