Biology:Dubiraphia

Short description: Genus of beetles

Dubiraphia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Elmidae
Tribe:	Elmini
Genus:	Dubiraphia Sanderson, 1954

Dubiraphia is a genus of riffle beetles in the family Elmidae. There are about 11 described species in Dubiraphia.

Species

• Dubiraphia bivittata (Leconte, 1852)
• Dubiraphia brevipennis Hilsenhoff, 1973
• Dubiraphia browni Hilsenhoff, 1973
• Dubiraphia brunnescens (Fall, 1925) (brownish dubiraphian riffle beetle)
• Dubiraphia giulianii (Van Dyke, 1949) (Giuliani's dubiraphian riffle beetle)
• Dubiraphia harleyi Barr, 1984
• Dubiraphia minima Hilsenhoff, 1973
• Dubiraphia parva Hilsenhoff, 1973 (little dubiraphian riffle beetle)
• Dubiraphia quadrinotata (Say, 1825)
• Dubiraphia robusta Hilsenhoff, 1973
• Dubiraphia vittata (Melsheimer, 1844)

Further reading

• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. 
• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. 
• Brown, Harley P. (1983). "A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico, Family: Elmidae". USDA Agriculture Handbook (United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service) no. 529–50. 
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. 
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. 
• Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.. 
• Papp, Charles S. (1984). Introduction to North American Beetles. Entomography Pubns. 
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin. 

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