Rhantus

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]

Rhantus
Rhantus elisabethae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Tribe: Colymbetini
Genus: Rhantus
Species
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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 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Balke, Michael; Hájek, Jiří; Hendrich, Lars (2017). "Generic reclassification of species formerly included in Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)". Zootaxa. 4258. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.7.
  4. Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2018). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2018 (PDF).


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