Agabus

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: Agabinae
Genus: Agabus
Subgenera (3): A. (Acatodes) - A. (Agabus) - A. (Gaurodytes)

Overview of species

A. abaensis – A. agulhas – A. anguluverpus – A. austellus – A. riberae

Name

• Agabus Leach, 1817

Type species: Agabus paykullii Leach, 1817:72 (= Dytiscus serricornis Paykull, 1799:49) by monotypy

gender: masculine

Synonyms

• Necticus Hope, 1838
• Acatodes Thomson, 1859
• Eriglenus Thomson, 1859
• Gaurodytes Thomson, 1859
• Badynectus Seidlitz, 1872
• Arctodytes Thomson, 1874
• Metronectes Sharp, 1882
• Dichodytes Thomson, 1886
• Heteronychus Seidlitz, 1887
• Scytodytes Seidlitz, 1887
• Xanthodytes Seidlitz, 1887
• Apator Semenov, 1899
• Allonychus Zaitzev, 1905
• Carrhydrus Fall, 1922
• Gabinectes Guignot, 1931
• Agabinectes Guignot, 1932
• Dichonectes Guignot, 1945
• Neonecticus Guignot, 1951
• Mesogabus Guéorguiev, 1969

References

• Leach, W. E. 1817: Distribution systematique de la class Cirripedes. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 85: 67–69. Reference page. 
• Alarie, Y.; Joly, H.; Dennie, D. 1998: Cuticular hydrocarbon analysis of the aquatic beetle Agabus anthracinus Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Canadian entomologist, 130(5): 615–629. DOI: 10.4039/Ent130615-5
• Englund, W.F., Njoroge, L., Biström, O., Miller, K.B., Bilton, D.T. & Bergsten, J. 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical Agabus raffrayi species group with the description of four new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). ZooKeys, 963: 45–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.963.53470 Reference page. 
• Fery, H.; Nilsson, A.N. 1993: A revision of the Agabus chalconatus- and erichsoni-groups (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), with a proposed phylogeny. Entomologica scandinavica, 24(1): 79–108. DOI: 10.1163/187631293X00082
• Nilsson, A.N. 1992: A revision of Afrotropical Agabus Leach (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), and the evolution of tropicoalpine super specialists. Systematic entomology, 17(2): 155–179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1992.tb00328.x
• Nilsson, A.N. 2000: A new view on the generic classification of the Agabus-group of genera of the Agabini, aimed at solving the problem with a paraphyletic Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 70: 17–36.
• Nilsson, A.N.; Petrov, P.N. 2006: On the identity of Agabus uliginosus (Linnaeus, 1761), with the description of a new species of Agabus from Russia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Russian entomological journal, 14(3): 159–167. PDF
• Nilsson, A.N.; Toledo, M. 1999: Agabus amnicola (J. Sahlberg) and A. jacobsoni Zaitzev, two poorly known species of the uliginosus-group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 69: 29–32.
• Šťastný, J. & Hájek, J. 2016. Agabus abaensis sp. nov., a peculiar species of the confinis-group from central China (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae). Zootaxa 4121(3): 311–318. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.3.5. Reference page. 

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Genus Agabus Leach, 1817 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) (Atlas of beetles of Russia)

Vernacular names

čeština: Potápník
русский: Гребец
中文: 亞迦布