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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Predaceous Diving Beetles (Dytiscidae) » Agabinae » Agabini » Ilybiosoma

Genus Ilybiosoma

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited
Dytiscidae - Ilybiosoma Predacious Diving Beetle - Ilybiosoma seriatum Ilybiosoma perplexus - Ilybiosoma perplexum - male Ilybiosoma perplexus - Ilybiosoma perplexum - male Ilybiosoma seriatum - female Predaceous Diving Beetle - Ilybiosoma seriatum Dytiscidae - Ilybiosoma Agabus in restored valley stream - Ilybiosoma seriatum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Agabinae
Tribe Agabini
Genus Ilybiosoma
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Includes the former Agabus seriatus group: A. perplexus, A. ilybiiformis, A. pandurus, A. brevicollis, A. regularis, A. lugens, A. roguus, A. minnesotensis, and A. seriatus (as I. seriatum). See Nilsson (2001)
Explanation of Names
Ilybiosoma Crotch 1873
Numbers
13 spp. in our area, 17 total(1)
Size
6.9-13.2 mm(1)
Range
mostly nearctic, primarily western with center of diversity in sw US; only the transcontinentalI. seriatum present in the east(2); a handful of spp. in warmer parts of the Old World(1)
Habitat
Lotic, in streams/springs(2)
Print References
Nilsson A.N. (2001) World Catalogue of Insects, vol. 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). Apollo Books, 395 pp.
Works Cited
1.Diving beetles of the world: systematics and biology of the Dytiscidae
Miller K.B., Bergsten J. 2016. JHU Press. 336 pp.
2.Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska
D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. 2001. NRC 43253.
Contributed by Tim Loh on 10 October, 2010 - 2:13am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 14 April, 2023 - 9:23pm

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