Madaglymbus

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: Copelatinae
Genus: Madaglymbus
Species (13): M. alutaceus – M. elongatus – M. fairmairei – M. formosulus – M. johannis – M. kelimaso – M. menalamba – M. mathaei – M. milloti – M. ruthwildae – M. semifactus – M. strigulifer – M. xanthogrammus

[source: Shaverdo et al. (2008: 46)]
Name

Madaglymbus Shaverdo & Balke in Shaverdo et al., 2008

Type species: Copelatus elongatus Kolbe, 1883
Fixation: original designation

References

Shaverdo, H.; Monaghan, M.T.; Lees, D.C.; Ranaivosolo, R.; Balke, M. 2008: Madaglymbus, a new genus of Malagasy endemic diving beetles and description of a highly unusual species based on morphology and DNA sequence data (Dytiscidae: Copelatinae). Systematics and biodiversity, 6(1): 43–51. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200007002599
Ranarilalatiana, T. & Bergsten, J. 2019. Discovery of a specialist Copelatinae fauna on Madagascar: highly ephemeral tropical forest floor depressions as an overlooked habitat for diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Zookeys, 871: 89–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.871.36337 Reference page.

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Nomenclator Zoologicus [not seen]

Madaglymbus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about 10 described species in Madaglymbus. They are found in Africa.[1][2][3]
Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Madaglymbus:

Madaglymbus alutaceus (Régimbart, 1900)
Madaglymbus elongatus (H.J. Kolbe, 1883)
Madaglymbus fairmairei (Zimmermann, 1919)
Madaglymbus formosulus (Guignot, 1956)
Madaglymbus johannis (Wewalka, 1982)
Madaglymbus mathaei (Wewalka, 1982)
Madaglymbus milloti (Guignot, 1959)
Madaglymbus ruthwildae Shaverdo & Balke, 2008
Madaglymbus strigulifer (Régimbart, 1903)
Madaglymbus xanthogrammus (Régimbart, 1900)

References

"Madaglymbus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
"Madaglymbus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-17.

Nilsson, A.N. A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga) (PDF) (Report). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-06-18.

Further reading

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.
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.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.