Cercyon

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
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Hydrophilidae
Subfamilia: Sphaeridiinae
Tribus: Megasternini
Genus: Cercyon
Subgenera: C. (Acycreon) – C. (Cercyon) – C. (Clinocercyon) – C. (Conocercyon) – C. (Dicyrtocercyon) – C. (Paracercyon) – C. (Paracycreon)

Species: C. abeillei – C. aequalis – C. algarum – C. alpinus – C. amplelevatus – C. analis – C. aptus – C. arenarius – C. armatipenis – C. atricapillus – C. berlovi – C. bifenestratus – C. bononiensis – C. borealis – C. castaneipennis – C. circumcinctus – C. convexiusculus – C. cultriformis – C. depressus – C. deserticola – C. dilutus – C. dux – C. emarginatus – C. gimmeli – C. granarius – C. guangxiensis – C. haemorrhoidalis – C. hanseni – C. honorabilis – C. impressus – C. incretus – C. inquinatus – C. jonensis – C. korbianus – C. kryzhanovskii – C. laminatus – C. lateralis – C. linearis – C. lineolatus – C. littoralis – C. lividulus – C. marinus – C. melanocephalus – C. moroderi – C. nigriceps – C. nigrostriatus – C. noctuabundus – C. numerosus – C. obsoletus – C. olibrus – C. ostentum – C. ovillus – C. paradoxus – C. placidus – C. primoricus – C. pseudodilutus – C. punctiger – C. pygmaeus – C. quisquilius – C. renneri – C. retius – C. rhomboidalis – C. rishwani – C. rotundulus – C. rubicundus – C. saluki – C. sanaii – C. scitus – C. setiger – C. setulosus – C. shinanensis – C. sklodowskae – C. soesilae – C. spiniventris – C. sternalis – C. strandi – C. subopacipennis – C. subsolanus – C. subsulcatus – C. symbion – C. taino – C. tatricus – C. terminatus – C. tristis – C. tropisternus – C. uenoi – C. unipunctatus – C. unipustulatus – C. ustulatus – C. ustus – C. vagus – C. verus – C. vicinaloides – C. wui – C. yayeyama
Name

Cercyon Leach, 1817
Synonymy

Paracercyon
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.
Arriaga-Varela, E., Seidel, M., Deler-Hernández, A., Senderov, V. & Fikácek, M. 2017. A review of the Cercyon Leach (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae) of the Greater Antilles. ZooKeys 681: 39—93. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.681.12522. Reference page.
Baranowski, R. 1984: Two new species of Cercyon Leach from boreal Sweden (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Entomologica scandinavica, 15: 341–347. DOI: 10.1163/187631284X00262[INCORRECTLY LINKED!]
Fikáček, M.; Gentili, E.; Short, A.E.Z. 2010: Order Coleoptera, family Hydrophilidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 3: 135–165. PDF
Hoshina, H. 2008: A new species of the genus Cercyon (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Fukui Pref., Japan. Nature and environment of the Sea of Japan districts, (15): 1–7. ISSN: 1343-084X
Jia, F.L., Fikáček, M. & Ryndevich, S.K. 2011. Taxonomic notes on Chinese Cercyon: description of a new species, new synonyms, and additional faunistic records (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Zootaxa 3090(1): 41–56. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3090.1.3 Paywall. Reference page.
Jia, F.L., Liang, Z.L., Ryndevich, S.K. & Fikáček, M. 2019. Two new species and additional faunistic records of Cercyon Leach, 1817 from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4565(4): 501–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.4.4 Paywall. Reference page.
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Macfarlane, R.P. et al. 2010: [Chapter] NINE Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM HEXAPODA Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233-467 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3
Makhan, D. 2004: Hydrochidae of the world, Dryopidae and Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Calodema, 2: 11–26.
Makhan, D. 2010: Cercyon soesilae sp. nov., an additional new water beetle from Suriname (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Calodema, 111: 1–2.
Ôhara, M.; Jia, F. 2006: Terrestrial hydrophilid beetles of the Kuril Archipelago (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). In: Takahashi, H. & Ôhara, M. (eds.) Biodiversity and biogeography of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, volume 2. Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum, (3): 129–150.
Ôhara, M. 2008: New records of the supralittoral species of the genus Cercyon (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from the peripheral islands off Hokkaido, Japan. Elytra, Tokyo, 36(2): 343–348. [not seen]
Ryndevich, S.K. & Prokin, A.A. 2017. Two new species of Cercyon (Clinocercyon) from Russian Far East (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4300(1): 125–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.7. Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K. 2004a. Two new species of Cercyon Leach, 1817 from China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Genus: 15(1): 59–63. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K. 2007. A new species of Cercyon from India (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15(2): 309-310. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K. 2007a. Review of species of genus Cercyon Leach, 1817 of Russia and adjacent regions. II. Subgenus Cercyon Leach, 1817. Cercyon olibrus and C. rotundulus groups (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15(2): 311-314. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K. 2007b. Review of species of genus Cercyon Leach, 1817 of Russia and adjacent regions. III. Subgenera Clinocercyon Orchymont, 1942 and Conocercyon Hebauer, 2003 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 15(2): 315-320. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K., Hoshina, H. & Prokin, A.A. 2019. Review of species of the genus Cercyon of Russia and adjacent regions. VI. Subgenus Cercyon, the C. shinanensis group (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 28(2): 258–266. DOI: 10.31610/zsr/2019.28.2.258. Reference page.

Vernacular names
čeština: Vodomil
русский: Грязевик

Cercyon is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are at least 50 described species in Cercyon.[1][2][3][4]
Cercyon quisquilius

Species

These 50 species belong to the genus Cercyon.[2][3][4]

Cercyon adumbratus Mannerheim, 1843
Cercyon aequatus Knisch, 1924
Cercyon analis (Paykull, 1798)
Cercyon arizonicus Dajoz, 1997
Cercyon assecla Smetana, 1978
Cercyon cinctus Smetana, 1978
Cercyon connivens Fall, 1924
Cercyon convexiusculus Stephens, 1829
Cercyon crocatus Smetana, 1978
Cercyon depressus Stephens, 1829
Cercyon erraticus Smetana, 1978
Cercyon fimbriatus Mannerheim, 1852
Cercyon floridanus Horn, 1890
Cercyon granarius Erichson, 1837
Cercyon haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1775)
Cercyon herceus Smetana, 1978
Cercyon impressus (Sturm, 1807)
Cercyon indistinctus Horn, 1890
Cercyon integer Sharp, 1882
Cercyon kulzeri Knisch, 1922
Cercyon laminatus Sharp, 1873
Cercyon lateralis (Marsham, 1802)
Cercyon limbatus Mannerheim, 1843
Cercyon lineolatus (Motschulsky, 1863)
Cercyon littoralis (Gyllenhal, 1808)
Cercyon luniger Mannerheim, 1853
Cercyon marinus Thomson, 1853
Cercyon matthewsi Smetana, 1978
Cercyon melanocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cercyon mellipes (Say, 1835)
Cercyon mendax Smetana, 1978
Cercyon mexicanus Sharp, 1882
Cercyon miniusculus Melsheimer, 1846
Cercyon minusculus
Cercyon nevadanus Knisch, 1924
Cercyon nigriceps (Marsham, 1802)
Cercyon ocallatus (Say, 1825)
Cercyon occallatus
Cercyon praetextatus (Say, 1825)
Cercyon pubescens (LeConte, 1855)
Cercyon pygmaeus (Illiger, 1801)
Cercyon quisquilius (Linnaeus, 1761)
Cercyon roseni Knisch, 1922
Cercyon spathifer Smetana, 1978
Cercyon terminatus (Marsham, 1802)
Cercyon tolfino Hatch, 1965
Cercyon tristis (Illiger, 1801)
Cercyon unipunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cercyon ustulatus (Preyssler, 1790)
Cercyon variegatus Sharp, 1882
Cercyon versicolor Smetana, 1978

References

"Cercyon Genus: Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Cercyon Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Cercyon Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

"Browse Cercyon". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

Further reading

Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Hansen, M. (1999). World Catalogue of Insects, Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark.
Hansen, Michael (1999). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 2: Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). Apollo Books.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.