Africodytes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
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

Africodytes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae, containing the following species:[1]

Africodytes kongouensis Bilardo & Rocchi, 1999
Africodytes maximus Biström, 1995
Africodytes rubromaculatus Biström, 1988
Africodytes silvestris (Bilardo & Pederzani, 1978)

References

Dytiscidae Species List at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.