Sandracottus hunteri (Crotch, 1872)

Suprayitno, Nano, Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa, von Rintelen, Thomas, Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2017, Taxonomy and Biogeography without frontiers - WhatsApp, Facebook and smartphone digital photography let citizen scientists in more remote localities step out of the dark, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 19938-19938 : 19938

Sandracottus hunteri (Crotch, 1872)

Sandracottus hunteri Crotch 1872: 205; Hendrich and Balke 1995: 47; Nilsson and Hájek 2017: 85.

Sandracottus hunteri Note, this species was to date treated under the name S. mixtus (Blanchard, 1843). However, this name is not applicable to the species treated here, with the available name being Hydaticus hunteri Crotch, 1872 (a taxonomic clarification will be presented by Hendrich, in prep.).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_16; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Sandracottushunteri; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Karangasem; locality: Jalan Karangasem - Seraya (4) ; verbatimElevation: 300m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/ftkQnXGqTjC2; decimalLatitude: -8.410798; decimalLongitude: 115.6815772; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-08-21; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_17; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Sandracottushunteri; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Karangasem; locality: Jalan Karangasem - Seraya (1) ; verbatimElevation: 250m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/vp4fVVnqXsy; decimalLatitude: -8.426531; decimalLongitude: 115.661005; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-07-02; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_19; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Sandracottushunteri; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Karangasem; locality: Jalan Karangasem - Seraya (3) ; verbatimElevation: 260m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/GJpzEosySy12; decimalLatitude: -8.421574; decimalLongitude: 115.671857; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-07-05; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BALI_NS_2016_23; recordedBy: Suprayitno; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Sandracottushunteri; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Dytiscidae; Location: island: Bali; country: Indonesia; stateProvince: Bali; county: Badung; locality: Desa Ungasan near Pecatu ; verbatimElevation: 140m; locationRemarks: https://goo.gl/maps/p64cgybQRDF2; decimalLatitude: -8.840126; decimalLongitude: 115.144003; Event: samplingProtocol: collected with strainer; eventDate: 2016-06-20; Record Level: institutionCode: MZB; collectionCode: Entomology; ownerInstitutionCode: Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: BA8; recordedBy: Hendrich & Balke; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Sandracottushunteri; 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: dipnet; eventDate: 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. 33.

Geographic range outside Bali

Oriental Region.

Ecology

Pools in intermittend streams (Figs 26, 28, 29).