Coptotomus is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae, the only genus of the subfamily Coptotominae. There are about six described species in Coptotomus, found in North America and the Neotropics.[1][2][3][4]

Coptotomus
Coptotomus longulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Coptotominae
Genus: Coptotomus
Say, 1830

There is one extinct species from the Palearctic.[5]

Species edit

These six species belong to the genus Coptotomus:

References edit

  1. ^ "Coptotomus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  2. ^ "Coptotomus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  3. ^ 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 2019-06-17.
  4. ^ Hendrich, Lars; Balke, Michael (2020). "A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae)". Zootaxa. 4895 (2): zootaxa.4895.2.7. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.7. PMID 33756906. S2CID 230598993.

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