Genus of beetles
Carabdytes is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae . Carabdytes upin was formerly the sole species of this genus, but nine species in the genus Rhantus were transferred to Carabdytes as a result of research published by Balke et al. in 2017.[ 1] [ 2]
Species
These 10 species belong to the genus Carabdytes :
Carabdytes alutaceus (Fauvel, 1883)
Carabdytes guadalcanalensis (Balke, 1998)
Carabdytes monteithi (Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007)
Carabdytes novaecaledoniae (Balfour-Browne, 1944)
Carabdytes oceanicus (Balke, 1993)
Carabdytes pacificus (Boisduval, 1835)
Carabdytes plantaris (Sharp, 1882)
Carabdytes poellerbauerae (Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007)
Carabdytes pseudopacificus (Balke, 1993)
Carabdytes upin Balke, Hendrich & Wewalka 1992
References
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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) .
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