Biology:Acilius (beetle)

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Acilius
Acilius sinensis Peschet, 1915 female.jpg
Acilius sinensis
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Dytiscidae
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Acilius

Leach, 1817

Acilius is a holarctic genus of diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae and typically has a life cycle that is univoltine.[1][2]

Despite the prevalence of some species, one species, A. duvergeri, is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.[1]

Species

The genus Acilius contains the following 13 extant species in 2 subgenera:[3]
Subgenus Acilius:

Subgenus Homoelytrus

Extinct species

These three extinct species are known only from fossils:[1]

  • Acilius florissantensis Wickham, 1909
  • Acilius oeningensis (Heer, 1847)
  • Acilius praesulcatus Lomnicki, 1894


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bergsten, Johannes; Miller, Kelly B. (2006). "Taxonomic revision of the Holarctic diving beetle genus Acilius Leach (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)" (in en). Systematic Entomology 31 (1): 145–197. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00309.x. ISSN 1365-3113. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00309.x. 
  2. 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. 
  3. Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2021). "A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)". http://waterbeetles.eu/documents/W_CAT_Dytiscidae_2021.pdf. 

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