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Rhantus
Rhantus elisabethae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Tribe: Colymbetini
Genus: Rhantus
Species
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Rhantus is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types. [1] Several species have colonized oceanic islands and become endemics. [2]

This genus is paraphyletic and will likely be revised, redefined, and split into several groups in future studies. [2] As a result of research published in 2017 by Balke et al., 17 species were moved from Rhantus to the genera Nartus, Meridiorhantus, Caperhantus, and Carabdytes. [3]

Species

male Rhantus frontalis
Rhantus suturalis
Rhantus suturellus

These species belong to the genus Rhantus: [4]

References

  1. ^ Alarie, Y., et al. (2009). Larval morphology of Rhantus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of 22 species and phylogenetic considerations. Zootaxa, 2317, 1-102.
  2. ^ a b Hjalmarsson, A. E., et al. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Madagascan Rhantus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) with an emphasis on Manjakatompo as a conservation priority. ZooKeys 350 21-45.
  3. ^ Balke, Michael; Hájek, Jiří; Hendrich, Lars (2017). "Generic reclassification of species formerly included in Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)". Zootaxa. 4258 (1): 91–100. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.7. PMID  28609937.
  4. ^ Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2018). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2018 (PDF).