Hydora

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Byrrhoidea

Familia: Elmidae
Subfamiliae: Larainae
Genus: Hydora
Species (10): H. angusticollis – H. annectens – H. lanigera – H. laticeps – H. lenta – H. musci – H. nitida – H. obsoleta – H. picea – H. subaenea
Name

Hydora Broun, 1882: 409

Type species:
Synonymy

Pachycephala Broun, 1881 [preocc.] Type species: Pachycephala picea Broun, 1881, by monotypy.
Hydora Broun, in Anon., 1882 [nomen novum pro Pachycephala Broun, 1881]
Udorus Broun, 1882 [nomen novum pro Pachycephala Broun, 1881]

References

Archangelsky, M.; Manzo, V. 2006: The larva of Hydora annectens Spangler and Brown (Coleoptera: Elmidae, Larainae) and a key to New World Larainae larvae. Zootaxa, 1204: 41–52.
Barr, C.B. & Shepard, W.D. 2021. A review of the Larainae of Australia with description of seven new species and the new genus Australara (Coleoptera, Byrrhoidea, Elmidae). ZooKeys 1073: 55–117. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1073.71843.Open access. Reference page.
Broun, T. 1882: Change of nomenclature of N.Z. beetles. New Zealand journal of science (Dunedin), 1: 128. BUGZ
Hinton, H.E. 1935: Notes on the Dryopoidea (Col.) Stylops, 4: 169–179.
Lambert, P.; Maier, C.A.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print): A new species and lectotype designations for New Zealand Hydora (Elmidae: Larainae) with a world checklist. New Zealand entomologist 38(1): 38–57. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2014.963910 Reference page.
Spangler, P.J.; Brown, H.P. 1981: The discovery of Hydora, a hitherto Australian New Zealand genus of riffle beetles, in austral South America (Coleoptera: Elmidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 83(4): 596-606. BHL Reference page.