Agabinae
Appearance
Agabinae | |
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Agabus disintegratus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Adephaga |
Family: | Dytiscidae |
Subfamily: | Agabinae Thomson, 1867 |
Tribes | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Agabinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are 9 extant genera and more than 460 described species in Agabinae.[1][2][3][4][5]

Genera
[edit]These 9 genera belong to the subfamily Agabinae:[6]
Tribe: Agabini Thomson, 1867
- Agabinus Crotch, 1873
- Agabus Leach, 1817
- Hydronebrius Jakovlev, 1897
- Ilybiosoma Crotch, 1873
- Ilybius Erichson, 1832
- Platambus Thomson, 1859
Tribe: Hydrotrupini Roughley, 2000
- Andonectes Guéorguiev, 1971
- Hydrotrupes Sharp, 1882
- Platynectes Régimbart, 1879
Leuronectes and Agametrus have been merged with Platynectes.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Agabinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Agabinae subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- ^ a b Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A.; Hendrich, Lars; Hájek, Jiří; Michat, Mariano C.; Panjaitan, Rawati; Short, Andrew E. Z.; Balke, Michael (April 2017). "Evolution of Pacific Rim diving beetles sheds light on Amphi‐Pacific biogeography". Ecography. 40 (4): 500–510. doi:10.1111/ecog.02195. hdl:11336/63701. ISSN 0906-7590.
- ^ Miller, Kelly B.; Bergsten, Johannes (2023), Yee, Donald A. (ed.), "The Phylogeny and Classification of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)", Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 55–185, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-01245-7_3, ISBN 978-3-031-01244-0, retrieved 3 March 2025
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
- Roughley, R. E.; Larson, D. J. (2001). "Family 12: Dytiscidae". In Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C. (eds.). American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press. pp. 156–186. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9.
External links
[edit]Media related to Agabinae at Wikimedia Commons