''Amphizoa davidis'' is a species of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

in the Amphizoidae family described by the entomologist

Hippolyte Lucas Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas (17 January 1814 – 5 July 1899) was a French entomologist. Lucas was an assistant-natural history, naturalist at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific com ...

in 1882. The beetle measures between 10.5 and 16 millimeters in length. Its elytra are most notable for lacking a carina on the fifth interval. The

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

has a lateral margin without lateral bead. The species is only known from the province Sichuan of in especially in China. Illinois Natural History SurveyJi, L.; Jäch, M.A. 2003: Amphizoidae: taxonomic notes and new distributional records (Coleoptera). Pp. 49-52 in Jäch, M.A.; Ji, L. (eds.) ''Water Beetles of China''. Volume 3. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft and Wiener Coleopterologenverein, Vienna.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2213736 Adephaga Beetles described in 1882 Taxa named by Hippolyte Lucas