Enhydrus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Adephaga

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Gyrinidae
Subfamilia: Gyrininae
Tribus: Dineutini
Genus: Enhydrus
Species: E. atratus – E. mirandus – E. sulcatus – E. tibialis

Name

Enhydrus Laporte, 1835: 110 [conserved name]

Type species: Gyrinus sulcatus Wiedemann, 1821, by monotypy.

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 710.

Synonyms

• Epinectus Dejean, 1833: 58 (as "Epinectus. Eschcholtz") (nomen nudum)
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 710.
• Epinectus Aubé, 1838: 651 (as "Epinectus. Eschcholtz")
  • Type species: Gyrinus sulcatus Wiedemann, 1821, by original designation.
• Epinectes Régimbart, 1877: 105 (unjustified emendation of Epinectus Aubé, 1838)
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 710.
• Prothydrus Guignot, 1954: 45 (unnecessary replacement name for Enhydrus Laporte, 1835)
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 710.

References

Primary references

• Aubé, C. 1838. Species général des hydrocanthares et gyriniens; pour faire suite au species général des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris: Méquignon Père et Fils, xvi + 884 pp. BHL
• Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1833. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Deuxième édition. [Livraison 1 (pp. 1–96), Livraison 2 (pp. 97–176)]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. [pp. 177–256, Livraison 3 was published in 1834; pp. 257–360, Livraison 4 in 1835; pp. 361–442, Livraison 5 in 1836]. BHL. Reference page. 
• ICZN. 1964. Opinion 710. Enhydrus Laporte, 1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera): validated under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 242–245. BHL. Reference page. 
• Laporte [de Castelnau] F.L. 1835. Études entomologiques, ou description d’insectes nouveaux, et observations sur la synonymie; première partie. Carnassiers [livraison 2]. Méquignon-Marvis, Paris, pp. 1–159, pls. 1–4. GoogleBooks Reference page. 

Additional references

• Brinck, P. 1978. Derivation, taxonomy, and history of distribution of the whirligig beetle genus Enhydrus (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae). Entomologica Germanica 4(3–4): 317–326. DOI: 10.1127/entom.germ/4/1978/317 .
• Gustafson, G.T. & Miller, K.B. 2013. On the family- and genus-series nomina in Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810 (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Zootaxa 3731(1): 77–105. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.1.3 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Gustafson, G.T. & Miller, K.B. 2017. Systematics and evolution of the whirligig beetle tribe Dineutini (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrininae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 118–150. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw014 . Reference page. 
• Miller, K.B. & Bergsten, J. 2012. Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony and time-free Bayesian analyses. Systematic Entomology 37(4): 706–746. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00640.x . Reference page.