Agabinae

Agabinae
Agabus disintegratus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Dytiscidae
Subfamily:	Agabinae Thomson, 1867
Tribes
Agabini Hydrotrupini
Synonyms [1]
Hydrotrupinae Roughley in Larson, Alarie and Roughley, 2000

Agabinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are 9 extant genera and more than 460 described species in Agabinae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Platynectes kashmiranus

Genera

These 9 genera belong to the subfamily Agabinae: ^[6]

Tribe: Agabini Thomson, 1867

• Agabinus Crotch, 1873
• Agabus Leach, 1817
• Hydronebrius Jakovlev, 1897
• Ilybiosoma Crotch, 1873
• Ilybius Erichson, 1832
• Platambus Thomson, 1859

Tribe: Hydrotrupini Roughley, 2000

• Andonectes Guéorguiev, 1971
• Hydrotrupes Sharp, 1882
• Platynectes Régimbart, 1879

Leuronectes and Agametrus have been merged with Platynectes. ^[5]

References

1. "Agabinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
2. "Agabinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
3. Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
4. Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
5. Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Hendrich, Lars; Hájek, Jiří; Michat, Mariano C.; Panjaitan, Rawati; Short, Andrew E. Z.; Balke, Michael (April 2017). "Evolution of Pacific Rim diving beetles sheds light on Amphi‐Pacific biogeography". Ecography. 40 (4): 500–510. doi:10.1111/ecog.02195. hdl: 11336/63701 . ISSN   0906-7590.
6. Miller, Kelly B.; Bergsten, Johannes (2023), Yee, Donald A. (ed.), "The Phylogeny and Classification of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)" , Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 55–185, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-01245-7_3, ISBN   978-3-031-01244-0 , retrieved 3 March 2025

Further reading

• Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 . PMC   3577090 . PMID   23431087.
• Larson, D. J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R. E. (2001). "Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94 (5): 769–770. doi: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0769:PDBCDO]2.0.CO;2 .
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN   978-0665100550.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-33029-0.
• Roughley, R. E.; Larson, D. J. (2001). "Family 12: Dytiscidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C. (eds.). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press. pp. 156–186. ISBN   978-0-8493-1925-9.

External links

• Media related to Agabinae at Wikimedia Commons