Biology:Protistolophus spangleri

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Short description: Species of beetle

Protistolophus spangleri
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Hydrophilidae
Genus: Protistolophus
Species:
P. spangleri
Binomial name
Protistolophus spangleri
Short, 2010

Protistolophus spangleri is a species of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae and the only species in the genus Protistolophus. Protistolophus spangleri was described as a new species and genus by Andrew E.Z. Short in 2010. The species is known only from Venezuela.[1][2]

References

  1. Short, A. E.Z.; Fikåček, M. (2011). "World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006-1010)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (1): 83–122. Archived from the original on August 13, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150813161822/http://cercyon.eu/Publications_PDF/ShortFikacek_CatalogueUpdateII.pdf. 
  2. Short, Andrew E.Z. (2010). "Phylogeny, evolution and classification of the giant water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini: Hydrophilina)". Systematics and Biodiversity 8 (1): 17–37. doi:10.1080/14772000903529375. 

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