Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Rhantus frontalis, Fam. Dytiscidae, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
This one seems to be rare, but I have found some pics which lead me to believe my diving beetle is Rhantus frontalis

http://www.entomart.be/INS-0683.html

http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/images/h_800/rhantus_f...

This Yahoo group dytiscidae.org has it as their home page pic, only 6 members but I guess they are serious ones!

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Dytiscidae/

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Rhantus frontalis&btn...

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Rhantus frontalis&...

The head and thorax pattern matches, and it has the pale margin around the elytra. I have looked at quite a few and no others came close enough.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Reitter_D...

Any agreement on this, we are short on these in BugFiles.