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Dytiscus
Taxonomy
Dytiscus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Dytiscides, Dytiscinae, Dytiscini.
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Panzer (1793), Paykull (1798) and Fabricius (1798); to Hydrocanthari by Latreille (1802) and Latreille (1804); to Hydrocanthares by Dejean (1821); to Dytiscidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Dytiscini by LeConte (1861), Nilsson (2001) and Bouchard et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775), Panzer (1793), Paykull (1798) and Fabricius (1798); to Hydrocanthari by Latreille (1802) and Latreille (1804); to Hydrocanthares by Dejean (1821); to Dytiscidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Dytiscini by LeConte (1861), Nilsson (2001) and Bouchard et al. (2011).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Dytiscus Linnaeus p. 411 |
| 1761 | Dytiscus Linnaeus p. 214 |
| 1762 | Dyticus Geoffroy p. 185 |
| 1763 | Dytiscus Scopoli p. 96 |
| 1764 | Dytiscus Müller p. 18 |
| 1766 | Dytiscus Schaeffer |
| 1767 | Dytiscus Linnaeus p. 664 |
| 1768 | Dytiscus Strøm p. 327 |
| 1771 | Dytiscus Forster p. 52 |
| 1775 | Dytiscus Fabricius p. 230 |
| 1776 | Dytiscus Müller p. 69 |
| 1793 | Dytiscus Panzer p. VIII |
| 1796 | Dytiscus Latreille p. 72 |
| 1798 | Dytiscus Fabricius p. 64 |
| 1798 | Dytiscus Paykull p. 190 |
| 1802 | Dytiscus Latreille p. 75 |
| 1804 | Dytiscus Latreille p. 139 |
| 1821 | Dytiscus Dejean p. 18 |
| 1861 | Dytiscus LeConte p. 42 |
| 1992 | Dytiscus Carpenter |
| 2001 | Dytiscus Nilsson p. 266 |
| 2011 | Dytiscus Bouchard et al. p. 151 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Dytiscus Linnaeus 1758
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†Dytiscus avunculus von Heyden 1862
Dytiscus lapponicus Gyllenhal 1808
†Dytiscus latahensis Wickham 1931
†Dytiscus lavateri Heer 1847
Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus 1758
Dytiscus marginicollis LeConte 1845
†Dytiscus miocenicus Lewis and Gundersen 1987
†Dytiscus zersii Sordelli 1882
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available