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| Limbodessus bennetti Watts & McRae, 2013
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Limbodessus bennetti is a carnivorous subterranean water beetle. It is the first stygobitic Dytiscidae to be recorded in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Of all species currently described, Limbodessus bennetti is most closely related to stygobitic members of the genus Limbodessus from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.[1]
- ^ Watts, C.H.S.; McRae, J. (2013). "Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 28 (2): 141–143. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.28(2).2013.141-143.