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Meridiorhantus Antarcticus
''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rhantus'', but were moved to ''Meridiorhantus'' when it was created by Balke et al. in 2017. Species These five species belong to the genus ''Meridiorhantus'': * '' Meridiorhantus antarcticus'' (Germain, 1854) * '' Meridiorhantus calidus'' (Fabricius, 1792) * ''Meridiorhantus limbatus ''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rha ...'' (Aubé, 1838) * †'' Meridiorhantus orbignyi'' (Balke, 1992) * '' Meridiorhantus validus'' (Sharp, 1882) References Dytiscidae Dytiscidae genera {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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Predaceous Diving Beetle
The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a Family (biology), family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a few species live among leaf litter. The adults of most are between long, though much variation is seen between species. The European ''Dytiscus latissimus'' and Brazilian ''Megadytes ducalis'' are the largest, reaching up to and respectively. In contrast, the smallest is likely the Australian ''Limbodessus atypicali'' of subterranean waters, which only is about long. Most are dark brown, blackish, or dark olive (color), olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies. The larvae are commonly known as water tigers due to their voracious appetite. They have short, but sharp mandible (insect), mandibles and immediately upon biting, they deliver digestive enzymes into prey to suck their liquefied remains. The family includes more ...
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Dytiscidae
The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They occur in virtually any freshwater habitat around the world, but a few species live among leaf litter. The adults of most are between long, though much variation is seen between species. The European ''Dytiscus latissimus'' and Brazilian ''Megadytes ducalis'' are the largest, reaching up to and respectively. In contrast, the smallest is likely the Australian ''Limbodessus atypicali'' of subterranean waters, which only is about long. Most are dark brown, blackish, or dark olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies. The larvae are commonly known as water tigers due to their voracious appetite. They have short, but sharp mandibles and immediately upon biting, they deliver digestive enzymes into prey to suck their liquefied remains. The family includes more than 4,000 described species in numerous genera. ...
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Neotropical Realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora. Its fauna and flora are distinct ...
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Rhantus
''Rhantus'' is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types.Alarie, Y., et al. (2009)Larval morphology of ''Rhantus'' Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Colymbetinae): descriptions of 22 species and phylogenetic considerations.''Zootaxa'', 2317, 1-102. Several species have colonized oceanic islands and become endemics Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ....Hjalmarsson, A. E., et al. 2013Taxonomic revision of Madagascan ''Rhantus'' (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) with an emphasis on Manjakatompo as a conservation priority.''ZooKeys'' 350 21-45. This genus is paraphyletic and will likely be revised, redefined, and split into several groups in future studies. As a res ...
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Meridiorhantus Antarcticus
''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rhantus'', but were moved to ''Meridiorhantus'' when it was created by Balke et al. in 2017. Species These five species belong to the genus ''Meridiorhantus'': * '' Meridiorhantus antarcticus'' (Germain, 1854) * '' Meridiorhantus calidus'' (Fabricius, 1792) * ''Meridiorhantus limbatus ''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rha ...'' (Aubé, 1838) * †'' Meridiorhantus orbignyi'' (Balke, 1992) * '' Meridiorhantus validus'' (Sharp, 1882) References Dytiscidae Dytiscidae genera {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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Meridiorhantus Calidus
''Meridiorhantus calidus'' is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics. This species was formerly a member of the genus ''Rhantus ''Rhantus'' is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types.Alarie, Y., et al. (2009)Larval morphology of ''Rhantus'' Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytisc ...''. References Dytiscidae Beetles described in 1792 {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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Meridiorhantus Limbatus
''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rhantus ''Rhantus'' is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types.Alarie, Y., et al. (2009)Larval morphology of ''Rhantus'' Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytisc ...'', but were moved to ''Meridiorhantus'' when it was created by Balke et al. in 2017. Species These five species belong to the genus ''Meridiorhantus'': * '' Meridiorhantus antarcticus'' (Germain, 1854) * '' Meridiorhantus calidus'' (Fabricius, 1792) * '' Meridiorhantus limbatus'' (Aubé, 1838) * †'' Meridiorhantus orbignyi'' (Balke, 1992) * '' Meridiorhantus validus'' (Sharp, 1882) References Dytiscidae Dytiscidae genera {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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Meridiorhantus Orbignyi
''Meridiorhantus orbignyi'' is an extinct species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. This species was formerly a member of the genus ''Rhantus ''Rhantus'' is a genus of beetle in family Dytiscidae. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and marshy habitat types.Alarie, Y., et al. (2009)Larval morphology of ''Rhantus'' Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytisc ...''. References * Dytiscidae Beetles described in 1992 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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Meridiorhantus Validus
''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rhantus'', but were moved to ''Meridiorhantus'' when it was created by Balke et al. in 2017. Species These five species belong to the genus ''Meridiorhantus'': * ''Meridiorhantus antarcticus'' (Germain, 1854) * '' Meridiorhantus calidus'' (Fabricius, 1792) * ''Meridiorhantus limbatus ''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are about five described species in ''Meridiorhantus'', found in the Neotropics and North America. These species were formerly members of the genus ''Rha ...'' (Aubé, 1838) * †'' Meridiorhantus orbignyi'' (Balke, 1992) * '' Meridiorhantus validus'' (Sharp, 1882) References Dytiscidae Dytiscidae genera {{dytiscidae-stub ...
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