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Subgenus Cercyon

Compost hydrophilid - Cercyon praetextatus

Water Scavenger Beetle - Cercyon connivens

Cercyon under beach wrack - Cercyon fimbriatus

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 Sphaeridiinae

Tribe Megasternini

Genus Cercyon

No Taxon Subgenus Cercyon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

page will be updated per (1)

Size

~35 spp. in our area

Remarks

other adventive members of this subgenus (of European origin) not yet in the guide: C. atricapillus • C. depressus • C. terminatus

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the beach-dwelling species of Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) of the West Coast of North America Suzumura A., Kobayashi N., Ôhara M. 2019. Col. Bull. 73: 473‒493.

Contributed by Tim Loh on 17 April, 2011 - 11:32am
Additional contributions by v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 3 January, 2024 - 6:28pm

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