Brownephilus

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: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Hydrophilidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophilinae
Tribus: Hydrophilini
Subtribus: Hydrophilina
Genus: Brownephilus
Species: B. levantinus – B. major
Name

Brownephilus Mouchamps, 1959

References

Darılmaz, M.C.; Kıyak, S.; Short, A.E.Z. 2010: Discovery of the water scavenger beetle genus Brownephilus Mouchamps in Turkey (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilini). ZooKeys, 53: 13–16. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.53.455
Mouchamps, R. 1959: Remarques concernant les genres Hydrobiomorpha Blackburn et Neohydrophilus Orchymont (Coléoptères Hydrophilides). Bulletin et annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, 95: 295–335. [not seen]

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Brownephilus is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae containing two described species. Brownephilus was formerly a subgenus of Hydrobiomorpha and was elevated to genus by Andrew E.Z. Short in 2010.[1][2][3]
Species

These two species belong to the genus Brownephilus:

Brownephilus levantinus (Balfour-Browne, 1939)
Brownephilus major (İncerkara, Mart, Polat & Karaca, 2009)

References

Short, A. E.Z.; Fikåček, M. (2011). "World catalogue of the Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera): additions and corrections II (2006-1010)" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 51 (1): 83–122. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2015.
Short, Andrew E.Z. (2010). "Phylogeny, evolution and classification of the giant water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini: Hydrophilina)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 8 (1): 17–37. doi:10.1080/14772000903529375.
Darilmaz, Mustafa C.; Kiyak, Suat; Short, Andrew E.Z. (2010). "Discovery of the water scavenger beetle genus Brownephilus Mouchamps in Turkey (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Hydrophilini)". ZooKeys. 53: 13-16. doi:10.3897/zookeys.53.455.