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Cylloepus

Cylloepus is a genus of riffle beetles in the family Elmidae. There are 57 described species in Cylloepus.

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Cylloepus
Cylloepus parkeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Elmidae
Tribe: Elmini
Genus: Cylloepus
Erichson, 1847

Cylloepus is a genus of riffle beetles in the family Elmidae. There are 57 described species in Cylloepus.123

Species

  • Cylloepus abnormis (Horn, 1870)
  • Cylloepus alcine Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus araneolus (Mueller, 1806)
  • Cylloepus atys Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus barberi Hinton, 1934
  • Cylloepus bartolozzi Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus bispoi Polizei and Barclay, 2019
  • Cylloepus blairi Hinton, 1936
  • Cylloepus brasiliensis Grouvelle, 1889
  • Cylloepus caicus Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus carinulus Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus cesari Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus confusus Hinton, 1936
  • Cylloepus consobrinus Grouvelle, 1896
  • Cylloepus didas Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus dimorphus Shepard, Sites, and Rodrigues, 2021
  • Cylloepus dorvillei Passos and Felix, 2004
  • Cylloepus drymus Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus fabianorum Monte and Mscagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus francescae Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus friburguensis Sampaio, Passos, and Ferreira, 2011
  • Cylloepus gigas Grouvelle, 1889
  • Cylloepus gnidus Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus gounellei (Grouvelle, 1889)
  • Cylloepus hastatus Delève, 1968
  • Cylloepus heteroceros (Sharp, 1882)
  • Cylloepus macrelmoides Delève, 1968
  • Cylloepus maro Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus mazzai Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus nelo Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus nessimiani Sampaio, Passos, and Ferreira, 2011
  • Cylloepus nicon Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus olenus Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus optatus Sharp, 1882
  • Cylloepus palpalis Hinton, 1937
  • Cylloepus parallelus Delève, 1968
  • Cylloepus parkeri Sanderson, 1953 (Parker's cylloepus riffle beetle)
  • Cylloepus proximus Hinton, 1937
  • Cylloepus punctatus Hinton, 1940
  • Cylloepus puncticollis (Hinton, 1934)
  • Cylloepus quadratus (Darlington, 1927)
  • Cylloepus quinquecarinatus Sampaio, Passos, and Ferreira, 2011
  • Cylloepus reitteri Grouvelle, 1889
  • Cylloepus sculpticollis Delèville, 1968
  • Cylloepus segurae Polizei and Barclay, 2019
  • Cylloepus sharpi Grouvelle, 1889
  • Cylloepus silius Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus sparsus Hinton, 1940
  • Cylloepus terzanii Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus tuberculatus Hinton, 1940
  • Cylloepus typhon Hinton, 1945
  • Cylloepus ulpianus Hinton, 1946
  • Cylloepus ventralis Hinton, 1940
  • Cylloepus vianai Hinton, 1951
  • Cylloepus vicinus Hinton, 1940
  • Cylloepus whitmanae Monte and Mascagni, 2012
  • Cylloepus zagreus Hinton, 1945
References

References

  1. Jäch, Manfred A.; Kodada, Ján; Brojer, Michaela; Shepard, William D.; Čiampor, Jr., Fedor (2016). Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae. World Catalogue of Insects. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004291775.
  2. Polizei, Thiago T.S.; Barclay, Maxwell V.L. (2019). "The genus Cylloepus Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Elmidae: Elminae) new species and combinations". Zootaxa. 4652 (1): 93–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.3.
  3. Shepard, William D.; Sites, Robert W.; Rodrigues, Higor D.D. "A new, sexually dimorphic species of Cylloepus Erichson from Brazil (Coleoptera: Elmidae)". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 75 (1): 270–274. doi:10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.270.