Scirtidae

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Scirtoidea
Familia: Scirtidae
Subfamiliae: Nipponocyphoninae - Scirtinae - Stenocyphoninae
[list of subfamiliae after Lawrence & Yoshitomi (2007: 522-523)]

[edit] Name

Scirtidae Fleming, 1821

[edit] Synonymy

• Cyphonidae Stephens, 1829
• Elodidae Shuckard, 1840
• Helodidae Agassiz, 1846
• †Sinodryopitidae Hong, 2002 [syn. Kirejtshuk & Azar (2008: 29)]

[edit] References

• Heuss, K. 2008: Zur Taxonomie und Ökologie der Schlammkäfer des Baltischen Bernsteins mit einem Gattungsschlüssel und der Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) [The taxonomy and ecology of the marsh beetles of the Baltic amber with key to genera and description of a new species (Coleoptera: Scirtidae).] Entomologische Zeitschrift, 118(3): 131-134. PDF
• Kirejtshuk, A.G.; Azar, D. 2008: New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia, 2: 15-46. PDF
• Klausnitzer, B. 2008: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scirtidae. Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 20/17. Spektrum. [1]
• Lawrence, J.F. 2005: 15.4. Scirtidae Fleming, 1821. Pp. 443-450 in: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, Beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Yoshitomi, H. 2007: Nipponocyphon, a new genus of Japanese Scirtidae (Coleoptera) and its phylogenetic significance. Elytra, Tokyo, 35: 507-527.
• Ruta, R. 2009: Revision of Scirtidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described by Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Zootaxa, 2210: 26-50. Abstract & excerpt
• Yoshitomi, H. 2005: Systematic revision of the family Scirtidae of Japan, with phylogeny, morphology and bionomics (Insecta: Coleoptera, Scirtoidea). Japanese journal of systematic entomology (monographic series), (3)
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 3 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2006
  ISBN 87-88757-59-5, p.316

[edit] links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Scirtidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Tree of Life Web Project. 2007. Scirtidae. Marsh beetles. Version 25 May 2007 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of the family Scirtidae of Russia

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