Dactylosternum

Dactylosternum
Dactylosternum abdominale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Hydrophilidae
Tribe:	Coelostomatini
Genus:	Dactylosternum Wollaston, 1854

Dactylosternum is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are at least 20 described species in Dactylosternum.

Species

These 22 species belong to the genus Dactylosternum:

• Dactylosternum abdominale (Fabricius, 1792) ^{i c g b}
• Dactylosternum advectum Horn, 1890 ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum americanum (Mulsant, 1844) ^g
• Dactylosternum auripes Fauvel, 1883 ^g
• Dactylosternum cacti (LeConte, 1855) ^{i c g b}
• Dactylosternum cayannum (Mulsant, 1844) ^g
• Dactylosternum circumcinctum Fikáek, 2010 ^g
• Dactylosternum convexum (Castelnau, 1840) ^g
• Dactylosternum corbetti Balfour-Browne, 1942 ^g
• Dactylosternum cycloides Knisch, 1921 ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum dispar (Sharp, 1882) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum dytiscoides (Fabricius, 1775) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum flavicorne (Mulsant, 1844) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum fulgens Orchymont, 1937 ^g
• Dactylosternum grouvellei Guillebeau, 1894 ^g
• Dactylosternum helleri d'Orchymont, 1925 ^g
• Dactylosternum hydrophiloides (MacLeay, 1825) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum kanakorum Fikáek, 2010 ^g
• Dactylosternum montaguei Balfour-Browne, 1939 ^g
• Dactylosternum picicorne (Mulsant, 1844) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum subdepressum (Laporte, 1840) ^{i c g}
• Dactylosternum subquadratum (Fairmaire, 1849) ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. 88 (88). Pensoft Publishers. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
• Hansen, Michael (1999). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 2: Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books. ISBN 87-88757-31-5.
• 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 0665100558.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Dactylosternum at Wikimedia Commons