Microdytes elgae Hendrich, Balke & Wewalka, 1995

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Microdytes elgae Hendrich, Balke & Wewalka, 1995

Microdytes elgae Hendrich and Balke 1995: 42; Aubé 1838: 177; Nilsson and Hájek 2017: 202.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_07; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 7; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Tabanan; locality: Jl. Raya Apuan Senganan - Baturiti ; verbatimElevation: 600m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/DwRBDdgGPwp; decimalLatitude: -8.362083; decimalLongitude: 115.180111; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-09-04; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_35; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Buleleng; locality: Ds. Selat, Sukasada ; verbatimElevation: 180m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/DVC4v6KZQ2R2; decimalLatitude: -8.174688; decimalLongitude: 115.066921; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-05-31; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2017_56; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 22; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Tabanan; locality: Jl. Bantas - Pajahan - Pupuan ; verbatimElevation: 500m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/2JtWBirCLHR2; decimalLatitude: -8.345852; decimalLongitude: 114.994454; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2017-01-26; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BA5; recordedBy: Hendrich & Balke; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Microdyteselgae; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; locality: Bedugul, Candi Kuning ; verbatimElevation: 1320m; decimalLatitude: -8.253661; decimalLongitude: 115.173608; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 1990-08-27 and 1991-07-11; Record Level: institutionCode: ZSM etc; collectionCode: Entomology; datasetName: Zooligical State Collection Munich; ownerInstitutionCode: Zooligical State Collection Munich; basisOfRecord: Entomology; informationWithheld: Zooligical State Collection Munich

Distribution in Bali

See Fig. 30.

Geographic range outside Bali

Widespread through the SE Paleartic region and SE Asia (Bhutan, Indonesia [Bali, Lombok, Kalimantan], Malaysia [Peninsula, Sarawak], Singapore) ( Balke et al. 1999, Hendrich et al. 2004).

Ecology

Microdytes elgae inhabits small shaded or semishaded helocrenes as well as small streams in shaded forest environments. The beetles usually hide beneath leaves and in the gravel under only a very thin film of water ( Hendrich et al. 2004) (Figs 31, 32).