Pterosthetops

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: Prosthetopinae
Tribus: Pterosthetopini
Genus: Pterosthetops
Species: P. baini – P. brincki – P. chrysomallus – P. coriaceus – P. equestrius – P. harrisoni – P. hawequas – P. impressus – P. indwei – P. nitidus – P. pulcherrimus – P. swartbergensis – P. tuberculatus – P. uitkyki

Name

Pterosthetops Perkins, in Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

Type species: Pterosthetops impressus Perkins and Balfour-Browne, 1994

References

Primary references

• Perkins, P.D. & Balfour-Browne, J. 1994. A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: Zoology 77: 1–159. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Bilton, D.T. 2014: New species and new records of Pterosthetops: eumadicolous water beetles of the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3811(4): 438–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.2 Reference page. 
• Bilton, D.T. 2016. Two new water beetles from the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4137(4): 585–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.11. Reference page. 
• Bilton, D.T. 2017a. Water beetles from the Bokkeveld Plateau: a semi-arid hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Zootaxa 4268(2): 191–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.2. Reference page.