Berosus (beetle)

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Berosus
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Berosus affinis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
Subfamily: Hydrophilinae
Tribe: Berosini
Genus: Berosus
Leach, 1817

Berosus is a genus of beetles in the family Hydrophilidae, the water scavenger beetles. The genus contains 273 species. [1] [2] It is distributed worldwide. [3]

Contents

Beetles of this genus are aquatic, with most living in ponds and other marshy habitat types. [3]

Diversity

Species include:

Additional Australian species: [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Short, A. E.Z.; Fikáček, 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.
  2. ↑ Short, A. E. Z.; Hebauer, F. (2006). "World Catalogue of Hydrophiloidea – additions and corrections, 1 (1999–2005) (Coleoptera)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 76: 315–359. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 23, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Oliva, A., & Short, A. E. (2012). Review of the Berosus Leach of Venezuela (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Berosini) with description of fourteen new species. ZooKeys, (206), 1-69.
  4. ↑ Deler-Hernández; Fikáček; Cala-Riquelme (2013). "A review of the genus Berosus Leach of Cuba (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae)". ZooKeys (273): 73–106. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.273.4591 . PMC   3677367 . PMID   23794806.
  5. ↑ "Australian Faunal Directory: Names list for Berosus Leach, 1817". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-06-29.


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