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

Tribe Anacaenini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Water Scavenger Beetle - Anacaena limbata Water Scavenger Beetle - Anacaena limbata Tiny Beetle - Anacaena Crenitis maculifrons (Brown) - Crenitis maculifrons Crenitis maculifrons (Brown) - Crenitis maculifrons Water Scavenger Beetle - Anacaena limbata - female Hydrophilidae found under a rock in a rapid section of a creek Hydrophiloidea - Hydrophilidae
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 Chaetarthriinae
Tribe Anacaenini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Taxonomy of the tribe is being revised(1)
Numbers
ca. 30 spp. in 3 genera north of Mexico(2); 5 genera worldwide(3)
Range
worldwide and across NA(2)
Works Cited
1.Phylogenetic analysis of Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilinae) based on morphological characters of adults
A. Komarek & R.G. Beutel. 2007. Systematic Entomology 32(2): 205-226.
2.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.
3.Brigham W.U. (1995) Hydrophilinae: Checklist, classification, and synonymy of genera and subgenera
Contributed by v belov on 26 February, 2010 - 9:45pm
Last updated 26 February, 2010 - 11:19pm

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