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Agabus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Synonyms
  • Necticus was named by Hope (1838). It is extant.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Agabus by Clapham (2023).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1817Agabus Leach pp. 69, 72
1838Necticus Hope
1861Agabus LeConte p. 41
1882Agabus Sharp p. 493
1900Agabus Scudder p. 36
1992Agabus Carpenter
2001Agabus Nilsson
2011Agabus Bouchard et al. p. 149

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyAgabinaeThomson 1867
genusAgabus

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. Agabus Leach 1817
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Subg. Agabus (Agabus) Leach 1817
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†Agabus charon Wickham 1912
†Agabus congeneroides Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus corticeus Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus florissantensis Wickham 1913
†Agabus hochi Statz 1939
†Agabus latissimus Ponomarenko 2019
†Agabus lithax Říha 1960
†Agabus niedzwiedzkii Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus parvulus Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus perditus Scudder 1900
†Agabus praelugens Wickham 1917
†Agabus rathbuni Scudder 1900
†Agabus reductus von Heyden and von Heyden 1866
†Agabus reitteri Lomnicki 1894
†Agabus rottensis Nilsson 2001
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Invalid names: Agabus latus Statz 1939 [replaced]
†Agabus savagei Wickham 1917
†Agabus ungeri Heer 1847
Invalid names: Necticus Hope 1838 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available