Pterosthetops

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: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Hydraenidae
Subfamilia: Prosthetopinae
Tribus: Pterosthetopini
Genus: Pterosthetops
Species (14): P. baini – P. brincki – P. chrysomallus – P. coriaceus – P. equestrius – P. harrisoni – P. hawequas – P. impressus – P. indwei – P. nitidus – P. pulcherrimus – P. swartbergensis – P. tuberculatus – P. uitkyki
Name

Pterosthetops Perkins, 1994: 17
References

Bilton, D.T. 2016. Two new water beetles from the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 4137(4): 585–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.11. Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2017. Water beetles from the Bokkeveld Plateau: a semi-arid hotspot of freshwater biodiversity in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Zootaxa 4268(2): 191–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.2. Reference page.
Bilton, D.T. 2014: New species and new records of Pterosthetops: eumadicolous water beetles of the South African Cape (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae). Zootaxa 3811(4): 438–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.2 Reference page.
Perkins, P.D.; Balfour-Browne, J. 1994: A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: zoology, (77) BHL Reference page.