Genus of beetle
Rhantus is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae . There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types.[ 1] Several species have colonized oceanic islands and become endemics .[ 2]
This genus is paraphyletic and will likely be revised, redefined, and split into several groups in future studies.[ 2] As a result of research published in 2017 by Balke et al., 17 species were moved from Rhantus to the genera Nartus , Meridiorhantus , Caperhantus , and Carabdytes .[ 3]
Species
male Rhantus frontalis
Rhantus suturalis
Rhantus suturellus
These species belong to the genus Rhantus :[ 4]
Rhantus advena Sharp, 1882
Rhantus alluaudi Peschet, 1910
Rhantus andinus Balke, 1998
Rhantus anggi Balke, 2001
Rhantus anisonychus Crotch, 1873
Rhantus annectens Sharp, 1882
Rhantus atricolor (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus bacchusi Balke, 2001
Rhantus binotatus (Harris, 1828)
Rhantus bistriatus (Bergsträsser, 1778)
Rhantus blancasi Guignot, 1955
Rhantus bohlei Balke, Roughley, Sondermann & Spangler, 2002
Rhantus bouvieri Régimbart, 1900
Rhantus bula Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007
Rhantus calileguai Trémouilles, 1984
Rhantus capensis (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus cheesmanae Balke, 1993
Rhantus colymbitoides Gschwendtner, 1932
Rhantus concolorans (Wallengren, 1881)
Rhantus consimilis Motschulsky, 1859
Rhantus consputus (Sturm, 1834)
Rhantus crypticus Balke, 1992
Rhantus dani Balke, 2001
Rhantus debilis Sharp, 1882
Rhantus discicollis (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus duponti (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus ekari Balke & Hendrich, 1992
Rhantus elegans C.O. Waterhouse, 1895
Rhantus elisabethae Balke, Kinibel & Sagata, 2007
Rhantus englundi Balke & Ramsdale, 2006
Rhantus erraticus Sharp, 1884
Rhantus exsoletus (Forster, 1771)
Rhantus fengi Zhao, Jia & Balke, 2011
Rhantus fennicus Huldén, 1982
Rhantus formosanus Kamiya, 1938
Rhantus franzi Balke, 1998
Rhantus friedrichi Falkenström, 1936
Rhantus frontalis (Marsham, 1802)
Rhantus galapagoensis Balke & Peck, 1993
Rhantus gogonensis Wewalka, 1975
Rhantus gutticollis (Say, 1830)
Rhantus hiekei Balke, 1993
Rhantus hispanicus Sharp, 1882
Rhantus includens (Walker, 1871)
Rhantus incognitus Scholz, 1927
Rhantus interclusus (Walker, 1858)
Rhantus intermedius Balke, 1993
Rhantus kakapupu Balke, 2001
Rhantus kini Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007
Rhantus latitans Sharp, 1882
Rhantus latus (Fairmaire, 1869)
Rhantus leuser Balke, 1998
Rhantus liopteroides Zimmermann, 1927
Rhantus longulus Régimbart, 1895
Rhantus manjakatompo Pederzani & Rocchi, 2009
Rhantus notaticollis (Aubé, 1837)
Rhantus obscuricollis (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus ovalis Gschwendtner, 1936
Rhantus papuanus J. Balfour-Browne, 1939
Rhantus pederzanii Toledo & Mazzoldi, 1996
Rhantus peruvianus Guignot, 1955
Rhantus phocaenarum Guignot, 1957
Rhantus riedeli Balke, 2001
Rhantus rohani Peschet, 1924
Rhantus rufus Zimmermann, 1922
Rhantus rugulosus Régimbart, 1899
Rhantus schauinslandi Ordish, 1989
Rhantus schereri Balke, 1990
Rhantus selkirki Jäch, Balke & Michat, 2014
Rhantus sericans Sharp, 1882
Rhantus sexualis Zimmermann, 1919
Rhantus signatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Rhantus sikkimensis Régimbart, 1899
Rhantus simulans Régimbart, 1908
Rhantus socialis (C.O. Waterhouse, 1876)
Rhantus souzannae Balke, 1990
Rhantus supranubicus Balke, 2001
Rhantus suturalis (W.S. Macleay, 1825)
Rhantus suturellus (Harris, 1828)
Rhantus taprobanicus Sharp, 1890
Rhantus thibetanus Régimbart, 1899
Rhantus tigris Balke, 1995
Rhantus tristanicola (Brinck, 1948)
Rhantus vermiculatus Motschulsky, 1860
Rhantus vicinus (Aubé, 1838)
Rhantus vinsoni Balke, 1992
Rhantus vitiensis J. Balfour-Browne, 1944
Rhantus wallisi Hatch, 1953
Rhantus wittei Gschwendtner, 1938
Rhantus yessoensis Sharp, 1891
† Rhantus praesuturellus Nomnicki, 1894
References
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^ Alarie, Y., et al. (2009). Larval morphology of Rhantus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of 22 species and phylogenetic considerations. Zootaxa , 2317, 1-102.
^ a b Hjalmarsson, A. E., et al. 2013. Taxonomic revision of Madagascan Rhantus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) with an emphasis on Manjakatompo as a conservation priority. ZooKeys 350 21-45.
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Balke, Michael; Hájek, Jiří; Hendrich, Lars (2017). "Generic reclassification of species formerly included in Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)" . Zootaxa . 4258 (1): 91– 100. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.7 . PMID 28609937 .
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Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2018). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2018 (PDF) .