Phaenostoma

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
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Hydrophiloidea

Familia: Hydrophilidae
Subfamilia: Sphaeridiinae
Tribus: Coelostomatini
Genus: Phaenostoma
Species (5): P. kontax – P. posticatum – P. stochasma – P. tupiniquim – P. urichi
Name

Phaenostoma d’Orchymont, 1937: 133
Synonyms

Psilodacnum d’Orchymont, 1937

References

d'Orchymont, A. 1937: Sphaeridiini broméliadicoles nouveaux (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae, Sphaeridiinae). Annals and magazine of natural history (10) 20(115): 127–140. DOI: 10.1080/00222933708655323 Reference page.

Clarkson, B.; Albertoni, F.F.; Fikáček, M. 2014: Taxonomy and biology of the bromeliad-inhabiting genus Lachnodacnum (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54(1): 157–194. Biotaxa Reference page.
Clarkson, B. & Takiya, D.M. 2017. A new species of Phaenostoma d’Orchymont, 1937 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4236(2): 375–380. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.11. Reference page.
Gustafson, G.T.; Short, A.E.Z. 2010: Redescription of the Neotropical water scavenger beetle genus Phaenostoma (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with description of two new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50(2): 459–469. PDF Reference page.