Brancuporus

Genus of beetles

Brancuporus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Hydroporinae
Tribe: Hydroporini
Genus: Brancuporus
Hendrich, Toussaint & Balke, 2014

Brancuporus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least two described species in Brancuporus. They are found in Australasia.[1][2]

Species

These two species belong to the genus Brancuporus:

  • Brancuporus gottwaldi (Hendrich, 2001)
  • Brancuporus pennifoldae (Watts & Pinder, 2000)

References

  1. ^ "Brancuporus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  2. ^ Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-06-18.

Further reading

  • Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. Bibcode:2012ZooK..245....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
  • Larson, D. J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R. E. (2001). "Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94 (5): 769–770. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0769:PDBCDO]2.0.CO;2.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
Taxon identifiers
Brancuporus
  • Wikidata: Q21226851
  • Wikispecies: Brancuporus
  • AFD: Brancuporus
  • BioLib: 1280020
  • CoL: 8LR6C
  • GBIF: 8850798
  • IRMNG: 1480296
  • ITIS: 1156474


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