Hydrobiomorpha is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are 56 extant described species in Hydrobiomorpha, along with several fossil species.[1][2][3][4]

Hydrobiomorpha
Hydrobiomorpha casta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
Tribe: Hydrophilini
Genus: Hydrobiomorpha
Blackburn, 1888
Synonyms[1]
  • Neohydrophilus Orchymont, 1911

Species

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These 56 extant species belong to the genus Hydrobiomorpha:[4][5][6]

These extinct species are known only from fossils:

References

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  1. ^ a b "Hydrobiomorpha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Hydrobiomorpha". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ a b Hansen, Michael (1999). World Catalogue of Insects Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). Stenstrup: Apollo Books. ISBN 8788757315.
  4. ^ Short, Andrew 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.
  5. ^ Short, A. E.Z.; Fikåček, 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.
  6. ^ Short, Andrew E.Z. (2004). "Review of the Central American species of Hydrobiomorpha Blackburn (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 74: 363–366.
  7. ^ Bilton, David T. (2016). "A new species of Hydrobiomorpha from iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa (Coleoptera:Hydrophilidae)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 56 (1): 149–157.
  8. ^ a b Fikáček, Martin; Schmied, Heiko (2013). "Insect fauna of the late Miocene locality of Öhningen (Germany) less diverse than reported: an example of the hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera)". Journal of Paleontology. 87 (3): 427–443. doi:10.1666/12-101.1. S2CID 51746999.
  9. ^ Fikáček, Martin; Hájek, Jiří; Prokop, Jakub (2008). "New records of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae) from the central European Oligocene-Miocene deposits, with a confirmation of the generic attribution of Hydrobiomorpha enspelense Wedmann 2000". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. New Series. 44 (2): 187–199. doi:10.1080/00379271.2008.10697555. S2CID 51348060.
  10. ^ Fikáček, Martin; Wedmann, Sonja; Schmied, Heiko (2010). "Diversification of the greater hydrophilines clade of giant water scavenger beetles dated back to the Middle Eocene (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilina)". Invertebrate Systematics. 24: 9–22. doi:10.1071/IS09042.
  11. ^ Fikáček, Martin; Schmied, Heiko; Prokop, Jakub (2010). "Fossil hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) of the late Oligocene Rott Formation (Germany)". Acta Geologica Sinica. 84 (4): 732–750. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00239.x. S2CID 84386280.