ABSTRACT
Habits and habitats. These beetles occur in mud, under stones or on algae along the edge of streams and rivers, among the roots of plants, in mosses associated with bogs, or inhabiting moist leaf litter further away from bodies of water (Löbl, 1995). Adult microsporids store air beneath their elytra, but lack a dense mat of setae forming a plastron as in Hydroscapha (Beutel 1998/1999; Britton 1966; Hinton 1967; Messner and Joost 1984). Females produce a large, single egg at a time (Britton 1966). Adults and larvae feed on algae.
