Agabetes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Laccophilinae
Tribus: Agabetini
Genus: Agabetes
Species (2): A. acuductus – A. svetlanae
Name

Agabetes Crotch, 1873

References

Alarie, Y.; Spangler, P.J.; Steiner, W.E., jr. 2002: Larval morphology of Agabetes Crotch (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae): the hypothesis of sister-group relationship with the subfamily Laccophilinae revisited. Coleopterists bulletin, 56(4): 547–567. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0547:LMOACC]2.0.CO;2 JSTOR
Burmeister, E.G. 1990: The systematic position of the genus Agabetes Crotch within Dytiscidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Quaestiones entomologicae, 26(2): 221–238.
Nilsson, A.N. 1989: On the genus Agabetes Crotch (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with a new species from Iran. Annales entomologici fennici, 55(1): 35–40. [not seen]

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Agabetes is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae, containing the following species:[4][5]

Agabetes acuductus (Harris, 1828)[3]
Agabetes svetlanae Nilsson, 1989[6]

References

Crotch, G. R. (1873). "Revision of the Dytiscidæ of the United States". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 4: 398, 401. JSTOR 25076279.
Brancucci, Michel; Roughley, Robert E.; Nilsson, Anders N. (1989). "A review of the genus- and family-group names of the family Dytiscidae Leach (Coleoptera)". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 20 (3): 288. doi:10.1163/187631289X00348.
Harris, Thaddeus William (1828). "Contributions to Entomology. No. VI". New England Farmer. 7 (21): 164.
Burmeister, Ernst-Gerhard (1990). "The Systematic Position of the Genus: Agabetes Crotch within Dytiscidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga)". Quaestiones Entomologicae. 26 (2): 221–238.
Alarie, Yves; Spangler, P. J.; Steiner, W. E., Jr. (2002). "Larval Morphology of Agabetes Crotch (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae): The Hypothesis of Sister-Group Relationship with the Subfamily Laccophilinae Revisited". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 56 (4): 547–567. doi:10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0547:LMOACC]2.0.CO;2.
Nilsson, Anders N. (1989). "On the genus Agabetes Crotch (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, with a new species from Iran". Annales Entomologici Fennici. 55: 35–40 – via ResearchGate.