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Tropisternus (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Taxonomy
Tropisternus was named by Solier (1834). It is extant.

It was assigned to Hydrophilidae by Scudder (1878) and Scudder (1900); to Hydrophilina by Fikáček et al. (2010); and to Hydrophilini by Short and Fikáček (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1834Tropisternus Solier
1878Tropisternus Scudder p. 759
1900Tropisternus Scudder p. 39
2010Tropisternus Fikáček et al. p. 9
2013Tropisternus Short and Fikáček

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHydrophilidae
subfamilyHydrophilinae()
tribeHydrophilini
subtribeHydrophilina
genusTropisternusSolier 1834

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. Tropisternus Solier 1834 [water scavenger beetle]
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Tropisternus limitatus Scudder 1900
Tropisternus saxialis Scudder 1878
Tropisternus sculptilis Scudder 1878
Tropisternus vanus Scudder 1900
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available