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Hydrophilus Geoffroy 1762
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Description
Genus Hydrophilus Geoffroy, 1762
(Figs. 2C, 56–59, 64C, 66D)
Diagnosis. Larvae of this genus are easily distinguishable from other Japanese genera of the Hydrophilini by their large body size; additional diagnostic characters are: (1) frontal lines U-shaped, forming a straight line in posterior part of the head (Fig. 58A); (2) nasale smooth (Fig. 56C); (3) epistomal lobes almost symmetrical, rounded (Fig. 56C); (4) mandibles asymmetrical, right mandible with two inner teeth, left mandible with one inner tooth (Figs. 57 B–C); (5) abdominal segments with short setiferous projections on each side.
Notes
Published as part of Minoshima, Yûsuke & Hayashi, Masakazu, 2011, Larval morphology of the Japanese species of the tribes Acidocerini, Hydrobiusini and Hydrophilini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), pp. 1-118 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) (suppl.) 51 on page 91, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4272324
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hydrophilidae
- Genus
- Hydrophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Geoffroy
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hydrophilus Geoffroy, 1762 sec. Minoshima & Hayashi, 2011