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Subgenus Cercyon

pale-apex mushroom beetle - Cercyon Cercyon quisquilius Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon Brown Beetle - Cercyon luniger Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon variegatus water scavenger beetle - Cercyon assecla March-J.2011.17 - Cercyon praetextatus Cercyon praetextatus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Hydrophilidae (Water Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Sphaeridiinae
Tribe Megasternini
Genus Cercyon
No Taxon Subgenus Cercyon
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
page will be updated per (1)
Size
~35 spp. in our area
Remarks
other adventive members of this subgenus (of European origin) not yet in the guide: C. atricapillusC. depressusC. terminatus
Works Cited
1.Revision of the beach-dwelling species of Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) of the West Coast of North America
Suzumura A., Kobayashi N., Ôhara M. 2019. Col. Bull. 73: 473‒493.