Crenitis

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: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Hydrophilidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophilinae
Tribus: Anacaenini
Genus: Crenitis
Species: C. aduncata – C. lianggeqiui – C. obovata – ...
Name

Crenitis Bedel, 1881

References

Bilton, D.T. 2013: Crenitis bicolor sp. n. from the Kamiesberg of South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 3626(4): 589–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.4.13 Reference page.
Gentili, E. 1996: Notes on the Anacaenini from Australia and Melanesia with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Giornale italiano di Entomologia, 8: 177–189.
Hebauer, F. 2005: A new species of the hydrophilid genus Crenitis Bedel, (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) 1881 from South Africa. Acta coleopterologica, 21(1): 41–42.
Jia, F. 1996: A new note on genus Crenitis with a new species in China. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni, 35(2): 96–98.
Jia, F-L., Tang, Y-D. & Minoshima, Y.N. 2016. Description of three new species of Crenitis Bedel from China, with additional faunistic records for the genus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Chaetarthriinae). Zootaxa 4208(6): 561–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.6.4. Reference page.
Komarek & Ji 2003: Hydrophilidae: II. The Chinese species of Crenitis Bedel, with descriptions of two new species (Hydrophilidae). Jaech, Manfred A.; Ji, Lanzhu[Eds]. Water beetles of China. Volume 3., Zoologisch - Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna, 2003: i-vi, 1-572. Chapter pagination: 397–409.

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Crenitis is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are about 19 described species in Crenitis.[1][2][3]
Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Crenitis:

Crenitis aduncata
Crenitis alticola (Fall, 1924)
Crenitis apicalis Reitter, 1896
Crenitis convexa Ji & Komarek, 2003
Crenitis digesta (LeConte, 1855)
Crenitis dissimilis (Horn, 1873)
Crenitis formosana Hebauer, 1994
Crenitis lianggeqiui
Crenitis longula (Fall, 1924)
Crenitis maculifrons Brown, 1940
Crenitis malkini Miller, 1965
Crenitis monticola (Horn, 1890)
Crenitis morata (Horn, 1890)
Crenitis obovata
Crenitis palpalis Miller, 1965
Crenitis paradigma (Orchymont, 1942)
Crenitis rufiventris (Horn, 1873)
Crenitis satoi Hebauer, 1994
Crenitis snoqualmie Miller, 1965

References

"Crenitis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Crenitis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Crenitis genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.