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Aethionectes

Aethionectes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae found in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Dytiscidae
Genus: Aethionectes
Sharp, 1882

Aethionectes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae found in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.1

The genus Aethionectes contains the following six species:2

  • Aethionectes apicalis (Boheman, 1848)
  • Aethionectes eremita Bilardo & Rocchi, 2017
  • Aethionectes flammulatus Zimmermann, 1928
  • Aethionectes fulvonotatus (Clark, 1864)
  • Aethionectes irroratus Guignot, 1952
  • Aethionectes oberthueri (Régimbart, 1895)
References

References

  1. Miller, K.B.; J. Bergsten (2016). Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae. JHU Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-1-4214-2054-7.
  2. Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2021). "A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)" (PDF) (1.I.2021 ed.).