Crephelochares
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| Genus: | Crephelochares Kuwert, 1890
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Crephelochares is a genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by 29 described species.[1] It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms. [1]
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Crephelochares was described for the first time by August Ferdinand Kuwert in 1890 [2] as a subgenus of the genus Helochares.
Then it was considered a synonym of Chasmogenus,[3] but thanks to the results of a phylogenetic analysis involving molecular data,[4] both taxa are now considered distinct genera on their own right. [1]
Description[edit]
Small size (2.5–4.8 mm), bearing a clearly visible sutural stria; long maxillary palps; metafemora densely covered by hydrofuge pubescence.
A diagnosis was presented by Girón and Short. [1]
Species[edit]
- Crephelochares abnormalis (Sharp, 1890)
- Crephelochares africanus (d'Orchymont, 1937)
- Crephelochares balkei (Short, 2010)
- Crephelochares cattienus (Hebauer, 2002)
- Crephelochares irianus (Hebauer, 2001)
- Crephelochares larsi (Hebauer, 1995)
- Crephelochares livornicus (Kuwert, 1890)
- Crephelochares luctuosus (d'Orchymont, 1939)
- Crephelochares lycetus (d'Orchymont, 1939)
- Crephelochares mauritiensis (Balfour-Browne, 1958)
- Crephelochares molinai (Hebauer, 1992)
- Crephelochares mollis (Régimbart, 1903)
- Crephelochares molluscus (Hebauer, 1992)
- Crephelochares nitescens (Fauvel, 1883)
- Crephelochares omissus (Hebauer, 1995)
- Crephelochares orbus (Watanabe, 1987)
- Crephelochares paramollis (Hebauer, 1992)
- Crephelochares parorbus (Jia and Tang, 2018)
- Crephelochares patrizii (Balfour-Browne, 1948)
- Crephelochares punctulatus (Short, 2010)
- Crephelochares rhodesiensis (Hebauer, 2006)
- Crephelochares ruandanus (Balfour-Browne, 1957)
- Crephelochares rubellus (Hebauer, 1992)
- Crephelochares rubricollis (Régimbart, 1903)
- Crephelochares rudis (Hebauer, 1992)
- Crephelochares rusticus (d'Orchymont, 1939)
- Crephelochares rutiloides (d'Orchymont, 1939)
- Crephelochares rutilus (d'Orchymont, 1925)
- Crephelochares szeli (Hebauer, 1992)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Girón, Jennifer C.; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2021-06-18). "The Acidocerinae (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae): taxonomy, classification, and catalog of species". ZooKeys (1045): 1–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1045.63810. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8233300. PMID 34228772.
- ^ Kuwert, A. (1890). "Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. XIX. Heft. Hydrophilidae. I. Abteilung: Hydrophilini". Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn. 28: 1–121.
- ^ d’Orchymont, A. (1919). "Contribution à l'étude des sous-familles des Sphaeridiinae et des Hydrophilinae (Col. Hydrophilidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 88 (1–2): 105–168.
- ^ Short, Andrew Edward Z.; Girón, Jennifer C.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A. (2021). "Evolution and biogeography of acidocerine water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) shaped by Gondwanan vicariance and Cenozoic isolation of South America". Systematic Entomology. 46 (2): 380–395. doi:10.1111/syen.12467. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 232264478.
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