Africodytes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Adephaga

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Hydroporinae
Tribus: Bidessini
Genus: Africodytes
Species (5): A. kongouensis – A. maximus – A. mopiensis – A. rubromaculatus – A. silvestris

Name

Africodytes Biström, 1988: 32

• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Africodytes rubromaculatus Biström, 1988
  • Fixation: original designation (p. 32)

References

• Bilardo, A.; Rocchi, S. 2000: Haliplidae and Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Gabon (third part). Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano, 140(2): 215–236.
• Bilardo, A.; Rocchi, S. 2010: Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from Gabon (seventh part). Plateaux Bateke National Park (missions 2007 and 2008) and considerations on some species of the genus Neptosternus Sharp, 1882 in central Africa. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano, 151(1): 11–50.
• Biström, O. 1988: Generic review of the Bidessini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Acta zoologica fennica, (184): 1–41. Reference page.  [See p. 32]
• Biström, O. 1995: Uvarus laurentius sp. n. and Africodytes maximus sp. n. and new faunistic records of other Bidessini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from the Ethiopian region. Entomologica fennica, 6(1): 43–46. abstract only seen