Cybistrini

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: Dytiscinae
Tribus: Cybistrini
Genera (7): Austrodytes – Cybister - Megadytes – Onychohydrus – Regimbartina – Spencerhydrus – Sternhydrus

[source: Miller, Bergsten & Whiting (2007: 56)]
Name

Cybistrini Sharp, 1882
References

Miller, K.B.; Bergsten, J.; Whiting, M.F. 2007: Phylogeny and classification of diving beetles in the tribe Cybistrini (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Dytiscinae). Zoologica scripta, 36(1): 41–59. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00254.x PDF PDF

Cybistrini is a tribe of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are 7 genera and 128 described extant species in Cybistrini.[1][2][3][4]
Cybister tripunctatus

Genera

These seven genera belong to the tribe Cybistrini:

Austrodytes Watts, 1978
Cybister Curtis, 1827
Megadytes Sharp, 1882
Onychohydrus Schaum & White, 1847
Regimbartina Chatanay, 1911
Spencerhydrus Sharp, 1882
Sternhydrus Brinck, 1945

References

"Cybistrini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Cybistrini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Nilsson, A.N. (2015). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2015 (PDF). Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Umeå. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.

Further reading

Larson, D. J.; Alarie, Y.; Roughley, R. E. (2001). "Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 94 (5): 769–770. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0769:PDBCDO]2.0.CO;2.
Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.