Berosus (beetle)

Berosus
Berosus affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
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]

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

Diversity

Species include:

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 July 26, 2015.
  2. Short, A. E. Z.; Hebauer, F. (2006). "World Catalogue of Hydrophiloidea – additions and corrections, 1 (1999–2005) (Coleoptera)". Koleopterologische Rundschau. 76: 315–359. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 1, 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)" (PDF). ZooKeys. 273: 73–106. doi:10.3897/zookeys.273.4591. PMC 3677367Freely accessible. PMID 23794806.

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