Hydrocanthus grandis (Laporte, 1835)

Perissinotto, Renzo, Bird, Matthew S. & Bilton, David T., 2016, Predaceous water beetles (Coleoptera, Hydradephaga) of the Lake St Lucia system, South Africa: biodiversity, community ecology and conservation implications, ZooKeys 595, pp. 85-135 : 104

Hydrocanthus grandis (Laporte, 1835)

Remarks.

Standing waters, in dense vegetation.

Distribution.

Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and to Central and Eastern Africa. New record for South Africa.

St Lucia records.

Not previously recorded from St Lucia. Recorded at Eastern Shores in January/February 2015, during the course of this study.