The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·205815SpeciesInsecta1,202 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Beetles
  7. ›Ground and Water Beetles
  8. ›Dytiscoidea
  9. ›Predaceous Diving Beetles
  10. ›Dytiscinae
  11. ›Aciliini
  12. ›Thermonectus
Sunburst Diving Beetle
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Mason Salem, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mason Salem · via iNaturalist

Sunburst Diving Beetle

Thermonectus marmoratus

Thermonectus marmoratus is a species of diving beetle known by the common names sunburst diving beetle and spotted diving beetle. The beetle has recently become notable when it was discovered that its aquatic larval stage has been found to have used in its principal eyes two retinas and two distinct focal planes that are substantially separated, in the manner of bifocals to switch their vision from up-close to distance, for easy and efficient capture of their...

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Listen

Looking for field recordings…

§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Thermonectus marmoratus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 205815.