Hydrotrupes

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: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Agabinae
Tribus: Hydrotrupini
Genus: Hydrotrupes
Species (3): H. chinensis – H. palpalis – ✝H. prometheus
[source: Nilsson (2003)]

Name

Hydrotrupes Sharp, 1882

Type species: Hydrotrupes palpalis Sharp, 1882, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Sharp, D. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Series 2, 2: 179–1003. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Alarie, Y.; Spangler, P.J.; Perkins, P.D. 1998: Study of the larvae of Hydrotrupes palpalis Sharp (Coleoptera: Adephaga, Dytiscidae) with implications for the phylogeny of the Colymbetinae. Coleopterists bulletin, 52(4): 313–332. JSTOR
Balke, M. 2005: 7.6. Dytiscidae Leach, 1915[sic!] Pp. 90-116 in Beutel, R.G.; Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110171309 contents limited preview
Beutel, R.G. 1994: On the systematic position of Hydrotrupes palpalis Sharp (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Aquatic insects, 16(3): 157–164. DOI: 10.1080/01650429409361550
R. Antonio Gómez and Anders L. Damgaard (2014). "A rare diving beetle from Baltic Amber: Hydrotrupes prometheus new species reveals former widespread distribution of the genus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)". Journal of Paleontology 88 (4): 814–822. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/13-017
Larson, D.J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R.E. 2000: Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa. ISBN 0660179679 [not seen]
Nilsson, A.N. 2003: Dytiscidae: XII. A new species of Hydrotrupes Sharp from China, an example of Pacific intercontinental disjunction (Coleoptera). Pp. 279-284 in Jäch, M.A.; Ji, L. (eds.) Water beetles of China. Volume 3. Zoologisch - Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna. [not seen]