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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Water Scavenger Beetles (Hydrophilidae) » Enochrinae » Cymbiodyta

Genus Cymbiodyta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

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 Enochrinae

Genus Cymbiodyta

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hydrocombus Sharp 1882

Explanation of Names

Cymbiodyta Bedel 1880

Numbers

24 spp. in our area(1), ~30 total; our spp.:

Cymbiodyta acuminata Fall - northern transcontinental

Cymbiodyta arizonica Smetana - se.AZ

Cymbiodyta beckeri Smetana - central US

Cymbiodyta bifida (LeConte) - eastern NA (=Helocombus bifidus)

Cymbiodyta blanchardi Horn - eastern US-CAN

Cymbiodyta chamberlaini Smetana - e. US-CAN

Cymbiodyta columbiana Leech - AK-CA

Cymbiodyta dorsalis (Motschulsky) - w. US, northern MX

Cymbiodyta eumera Smetana - VA-AL

Cymbiodyta fraterculus (Sharp)- AZ-TX, MX

Cymbiodyta howdeni Smetana - AZ-MX

Cymbiodyta imbellis (LeConte) - OR-CA

Cymbiodyta leechi Miller - WA-n.CA

Cymbiodyta minima Notman - northern transcontinental, e. US

Cymbiodyta occidentalis Smetana - CA

Cymbiodyta pacifica Leech - BC-CA

Cymbiodyta pseudopacifica Smetana - CA

Cymbiodyta punctatostriata (Horn) - CA

Cymbiodyta puella Smetana - CA

Cymbiodyta rotunda (Say) - ME-NC

Cymbiodyta semistriata (Zimmerman) - eastern/central US-CAN

Cymbiodyta seriata Smetana - AZ

Cymbiodyta toddi Spangler - eastern/central US-CAN

Cymbiodyta vindicata Fall - northern transcontinental, e. US

Identification

Key to spp. in (2)

Range

holarctic, much more diverse in NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	Revision of the genus Cymbiodyta Bedel (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) A. Smetana. 1974. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 93: 1-113.

Contributed by tom murray on 19 February, 2008 - 7:21am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 January, 2023 - 9:29pm

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