Protozantaena

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

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: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Hydraenidae
Subfamilia: Hydraeninae
Tribus: Parhydraenini
Genus: Protozantaena
Species: P. ankaratra – P. birdi – P. duplicata – P. elongata – P. grebennikovi – P. labrata – P. malagasica – P. palpalis

Name

Protozantaena Perkins, 1997: 174

Type species: Protozantaena labrata Philip Don Perkins, by original designation

References

Primary references

• Perkins, P.D. 1997: Life on the effective bubble: exocrine secretion delivery systems (ESDS) and the evolution and classification of beetles in the family Hydraenidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 66(2): 89–207. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Perkins, P.D. 2009. Revisions of the genera Parhydraena Orchymont, Protozantaena Perkins, Decarthrocerus Orchymont, and Parhydraenopsis nomen novum, aquatic and humicolous beetles from Africa and Madagascar, and comparative morphology of the tribe Parhydraenini (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 2038: 001–119. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 
• Perkins, P.D. 2017. Hydraenidae of Madagascar (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4342(1): 1–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4342.1.1. Reference page.