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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Hydrophiloidea » Epimetopidae » Epimetopus

Genus Epimetopus

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Hydrophilid - Epimetopus Epimmetopus - Epimetopus
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 Epimetopidae
Genus Epimetopus
Explanation of Names
Epimetopus Lacordaire 1854
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1)
Size
1.2-3.5 mm(1)
Range
in our area, OK, AR, TX & AZ(1)(2)(3)(4),(BG data)
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.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
3.Six new Neotropical species of aquatic beetles in the Epimetopus costatus complex (Hydrophilidae: Epimetopinae)
Perkins, Philip D. 1979. Coleopterists Bulletin 33(3):319-325.
4.A revision of Epimetopus Lacordaire, the New World hooded shore beetles (Coleoptera: Epimetopidae)
Perkins, Philip D. 2012. Zootaxa (3531):1-95.
Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 11 May, 2010 - 5:45pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Brady Richards
Last updated 22 March, 2021 - 3:39pm

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