Dineutus shorti

Dineutus shorti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Gyrinidae
Genus: Dineutus
Species:
D. shorti
Binomial name
Dineutus shorti
Gustafson and Sites, 2015

Dineutus shorti is a species of whirligig beetle in the family Gyrinidae. It is known only from a narrow section of the coastal plain in the Blackwater and Pensacola river watersheds of Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, Florida and Covington County, Alabama in the United States.[1][2]

The species is named for aquatic coleopterist for Andrew E. Z. Short.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Gustafson, Grey T.; Sites, Robert W. (2015). "A North American biodiversity hotspot gets richer: a new species of whirligig beetle (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) from the southeastern coastal plain of the United States". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 109 (1): 42–48. doi:10.1093/aesa/sav100.
  2. ^ "Dineutus shorti". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-08-19.


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