Brownephilus
Brownephilus is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae containing two described species. Brownephilus was formerly a subgenus of Hydrobiomorpha and was elevated to genus by Andrew E.Z. Short in 2010.[1][2][3]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Hydrophilidae |
Tribe: | Hydrophilini |
Genus: | Brownephilus Mouchamps, 1959 |
Species
These two species belong to the genus Brownephilus:
- Brownephilus levantinus (Balfour-Browne, 1939)
- Brownephilus major (İncerkara, Mart, Polat & Karaca, 2009)
References
- Short, A. E.Z.; Fikåček, M. (2011). "World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006-1010)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 51 (1): 83–122. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 13, 2015.
- Short, Andrew E.Z. (2010). "Phylogeny, evolution and classification of the giant water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini: Hydrophilina)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 8 (1): 17–37. doi:10.1080/14772000903529375.
- Darilmaz, Mustafa C.; Kiyak, Suat; Short, Andrew E.Z. (2010). "Discovery of the water scavenger beetle genus Brownephilus Mouchamps in Turkey (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilini)". ZooKeys (53): 13–16. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.290.8528. doi:10.3897/zookeys.53.455. PMC 3088036. PMID 21594128.
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