Hydrobius

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: Hydrobiusini
Genus: Hydrobius
Species (9): H. arcticus – H. convexus – H. fuscipes – H. melaenus – H. orientalis – H. pauper – H. pui – H. punctistriatus – H. tumidus

[source: Jia & Short (2009)]
Name

Hydrobius Leach, 1815
Gender: masculine
Type species: Dytiscus fuscipes Linnaeus, 1758
Fixation: subsequent designation by Hope (1838)
placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1990: 71)

Synonyms

Limnohydrobius Reitter, 1909
Gender: masculine
Type species: Hydrobius convexus Brullé, 1835
Fixation: monotypy

References

Fikáček, M.; Hájek, J.; Schmied, H. 2011: On the identity of the fossil aquatic beetles from the Tertiary localities in the southern part of the Upper Rhine Graben (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Dytiscidae). ZooKeys, 78: 15–25. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.78.800
Hansen, M. 1991: The hydrophilid beetles: phylogeny, classification and a revision of the genera (Coleoptera, Hydrophiloidea). Biologiske skrifter, 40 ISSN: 0366-3612 ISBN 87-7304-226-9 Google books
ICZN 1990: OPINION 1577. Hydrobius Leach, 1815 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Dytiscus fuscipes Linnaeus, 1758 conserved as type species, and Berosus Leach, 1817 (Insecta, Coleoptera): conserved. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 47(1): 71–72. ISSN: 0007-5167 Internet Archive BHL BioStor
Jia, F. 1995: Studies on Hydrobius Leach of China (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Supplement to the journal of the Sun Yatsen University, (2): 131–133.
Jia, F.; Short, A.E.Z. 2009: Description of Hydrobius orientalis sp. n., the first species of the subtribe Hydrobiusina from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini). Aquatic insects, 31(1): 25–29. DOI: 10.1080/01650420802448523 PDF

Additional references

Fossen, E.I.F., Ekrem, T., Nilsson, A.N. & Bergsten, J. 2016. Species delimitation in northern European water scavenger beetles of the genus Hydrobius (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). ZooKeys 564: 71–120. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.564.6558.Reference page.
Ryndevich, S.K. & Angus, R.B. 2020. Redescription of Hydrobius pauper (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae), with a key to the Eurasian species of the genus Hydrobius. Zoosystematica Rossica 29(1): 77-86. DOI: 10.31610/zsr/2020.29.1.77. Open access. Reference page.

Hydrobius is a genus of hydrophilid beetles that contains nine species distributed throughout the Holarctic realm.[1][2]

Hydrobius arcticus Kuwert, 1890
Hydrobius convexus Brullé, 1835
Hydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hydrobius melaenus (Germar, 1824)
Hydrobius orientalis Jia & Short, 2009
Hydrobius pauper Sharp, 1884
Hydrobius pui Jia, 1995
Hydrobius punctistriatus Jia, 1995
Hydrobius tumidus LeConte, 1835

References

Jia, Fenglong; Short, Andrew Edward Z. (2009). "Description of Hydrobius orientalis sp. n., the first species of the subtribe Hydrobiusina from the Oriental Region (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini" (PDF). Aquatic Insects. 31 (1): 25–29. doi:10.1080/01650420802448523. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
"Hydrobius Leach, 1815". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 26, 2015.