Taxonavigation

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

Name

• Hydrotrupes Sharp, 1882
  • Type species: Hydrotrupes palpalis Sharp, 1882
    • Fixation: monotypy

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
• 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]
• Sharp, D. 1882: On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (2), 2: 179–1003, plates VII-XVIII. Internet Archive BHL