Tormus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Hydrophiloidea

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: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Hydrophilidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophilinae
Tribus: Laccobiini
Genus: Tormus
Synonyms (1): Stygnohydrus

Species (2): T. helmsi – T. posticalis

In synonymy (4): T. basalis – T. femoralis – T. nitidus - T. nitidus

Name

• Tormus Sharp, 1884
  • Type species: Tormus helmsi Sharp, 1884
    • Fixation: monotypy

Primary references

• Sharp, D. 1884. Revision of the Hydrophilidae of New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884 [32(4)]: 465–480. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1884.tb01617.x . BHL. Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 474

References

• Fikáček, M., Minoshima, Y., Vondráček, D., Gunter, N. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2013. Morphology of adults and larvae and integrative taxonomy of southern hemisphere genera Tormus and Afrotormus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53(1): 75–126. PDF Reference page. 
• Hansen, M. 1991: The hydrophilid beetles: phylogeny, classification and a revision of the genera (Coleoptera, Hydrophiloidea). Biologiske skrifter, (40) ISBN 87-7304-226-9 Google books
• Hansen, M. 1997: Synopsis of the endemic New Zealand genera of the beetle subfamily Sphaeridiinae (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). New Zealand journal of zoology 24(4): 351–370. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1997.9518130 . Reference page.