Horelophopsis

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: Acidocerinae
Genus: Horelophopsis
Species (2): H. avita – H. hanseni
Name

Horelophopsis Hansen, 1997
Original status: valid genus
Gender: feminine
Type species: Horelophopsis avita Hansen, 1997
Fixation: original designation [p. 109] [and monotypy]

References

Hansen, M. 1997: A new subfamily for a remarkable new genus and species of Hydrophilidae from New Guinea (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Annales zoologici, 47(1/2): 107–110.
Minoshima, Y.; Hayashi, M.; Kobayashi, N.; Yoshitomi, H. 2010: Horelophopsis larvae? The unknown larvae collected with Horelophopsis hanseni Satô et Yoshitomi (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Horelophopsinae). Pp. 328-329 in Fikáček, M.; Skuhrovec, J.; Šípek, P. (eds.): Abstracts of the Immature Beetles Meeting 2009, October 1–2, Prague, Czech Republic. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50(1): 323–342. full article (PDF) Reference page.
Satô, M.; Yoshitomi, H. 2004: Discovery of a second representative of the genus Horelophopsis (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Elytra, Tokyo, 32: 41–49.

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