Rhantus

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Rhantus
File:Rhantus elisabethae.jpg
Rhantus elisabethae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Colymbetinae
Tribe: Colymbetini
Genus: Rhantus
Dejean, 1833
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

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File:Rhantus.frontalis.male.-.calwer.08.05.jpg
male Rhantus frontalis
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Rhantus suturalis
File:Rhantus suturellus (M`Leay, 1825) (3979392329) (2).jpg
Rhantus suturellus

These species belong to the genus Rhantus:[4]

References

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  1. ^ Alarie, Y., et al. (2009). Larval morphology of Rhantus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of 22 species and phylogenetic considerations. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine 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.
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