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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Sphaeridiinae » Megasternini » Cercyon » Subgenus Paracercyon (Cercyon Subgenus Paracercyon)

Subgenus Paracercyon

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Minute Beetle collected in Pitfall Trap S. Maine ...Cercyon sp. - Cercyon minusculus Minute Beetle collected in Pitfall Trap S. Maine - Cercyon minusculus Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon laminatus Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon laminatus Cercyon - Cercyon laminatus Cercyon analis Cercyon analis Hydrophilidae - Cercyon laminatus
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 Paracercyon
Explanation of Names
Paracercyon Seidlitz 1888
Numbers
3 spp. (incl. one adventive) in our area(1), 7 total(2)
Identification
mesosternal process wide, broadly contacting metasternum(1)
Works Cited
1.Review of the Family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska
Ales Smetana. 1988. Entomological Society of Canada.
2.BioLib.cz
Contributed by Tim Loh on 17 April, 2011 - 11:33am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 March, 2023 - 1:16pm

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