Paroster

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: Hydroporinae
Tribus: Hydroporini
Genus: Paroster

Species: P. baylyi – P. michaelseni – P. peelensis – P. thapsinus – P. ursulae
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Name

Paroster Sharp, 1882

Synonyms

• Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, 2001 [syn. Leys & Watts (2008: 219)]

References

• Alarie, Y.; Michat, M.C.; Watts, C.H.S. 2009: Larval morphology of Paroster Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae): reinforcement of the hypothesis of monophyletic origin and discussion of phenotypic accommodation to a hypogaeic environment. Zootaxa, 2274: 1–44. Abstract & excerpt
• Hendrich, L.; Fery, H. 2008: Paroster baylyi sp. n., P. ursulae sp. n. (Col. Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) and the water beetle diversity of pan-gnammas on isolated granite outcrops in the Mallee of south-western Australia. Zootaxa, 1704: 27–41. Abstract & excerpt
• Leys, R.; Watts, C.H. 2008: Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus. Invertebrate systematics, 22: 217–225. DOI: 10.1071/IS07034
• Watts, C.H.S.; Hancock, P.J.; Leys, R. 2008: Paroster peelensis sp. nov.: a new stygobitic water beetle from alluvial gravels in northern New South Wales (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Australian journal of entomology, 47: 227–231. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2008.00650.x
• Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2001: A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum, 34: 99–114. PDF
• Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2003: Twenty-five new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys, Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys and Bidessodes Regimbart from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum, 36: 135–188. PDF
• Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2004: Thirteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Boongurrus Larson, Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys and Nirripirti Watts and Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 128: 99–130. PDF
• Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2006: Twenty-six new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 130: 123–185.
• Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2009: Fourteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot, Paroster Sharp, and Exocelina Broun from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 133: 62–107.
• Watts, C.H.S.; Leys, R. 2008: Review of the epigean species of Paroster SHARP, 1882, with descriptions of three new species, and phylogeny based on DNA sequence data of two mitochondrial genes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 78 : 9–36.

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• ION search for Paroster
• ION search for Nirripirti
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Paroster
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Nirripirti

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