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Tropisternus mergus (Say, 1835)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Say, T. (1835) Descriptions of new North American Coleopterous Insects, and observations on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History, 1.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Hydrophilidae
genus
Tropisternus
species
Tropisternus mergus

Name

Synonyms
Hydrophilus lucidus Dejean, 1833
Tropisternus nitens Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
Homonyms
Tropisternus mergus (Say, 1835)

Bibliographic References

  1. González-Rodriguez LM, García-Hernández AL, Clarkson B. 2017. First records of water scavenger beetle species (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) from Quindío Department, Colombia. Check List 13 (5): 605-620. https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/21505/
  2. Hansen, M. (1999) World Catalogue of Insects 2: Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 416 pp.
  3. Hansen, Michael, 1999: null. World Catalogue of Insects, volume 2: Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). 416.
  4. Say, T. (1835) Descriptions of new North American coleopterous insects, and observations on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History 1: 151–203. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32413895
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