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Tribe Berosini

Berosus aculeatus LeConte - Berosus aculeatus Water Scavenger Beetle - Berosus infuscatus Coleoptera - Berosus Berosus species - possibly sayi? - Berosus Hydrophilidae Larva - Berosus Tiny Berosus - Berosus exiguus Berosus stylifer - male Berosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Water Scavenger and Clown Beetles)
Family Hydrophilidae (Water Scavenger Beetles)
Subfamily Hydrophilinae
Tribe Berosini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Taxonomy may be subject to change in near future(1)
Numbers
3 genera in NA north of Mexico
Size
<12 mm(2)
Range
worldwide and across NA(2) (the primarily Neotropical Hemiosus, with 1 sp. recorded in AZ, is not yet in the Guide)
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny of Berosini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilinae) based on larval and adult characters...
Miguel Archangelsky. 2008. Systematic Entomology 33(4): 635-650.
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.