''Dicranopselaphus'' is a genus of water-penny beetles in the family

Psephenidae Water-penny beetles are a family (the Psephenidae) of 272 species (in 35 genera) of aquatic beetles found on all continents except Antarctica, in both tropical and temperate areas. The young, which live in water, resemble tiny pennies. The larv ...

. There are over 40 described species in ''Dicranopselaphus'', distributed in

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and

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Species

These species belong to the genus ''Dicranopselaphus'': * '' Dicranopselaphus bicolor'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus brevicornis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus dentatus'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

Meghalaya Meghalaya (, or , meaning "abode of clouds"; from Sanskrit , "cloud" + , "abode") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of As ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus doiinthanonus'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus emasensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus emmanueli'' Pic, 1918 (

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

, Malaysia, Indonesia:

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus fangensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

) * '' Dicranopselaphus flavicornis'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus flavus'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus gressitti'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (China:

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus imparis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Vietnam: Vĩnh Phúc Province) * '' Dicranopselaphus jaechi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Indonesia:

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus javanus'' Pic, 1916 (Indonesia: Java) * '' Dicranopselaphus jiangxiensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus laevis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Vietnam:

Lâm Đồng Lâm is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Lin in Chinese and Im in Korean. Lam is the anglicized variation of the surname Lâm. Lam is also a commonly held surname of Cantonese speakers of Chinese descent. Large populations in ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus lesueurii'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico) * '' Dicranopselaphus luzonensis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

Luzon Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus malickyi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Thailand) * '' Dicranopselaphus morimotoi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Thailand) * '' Dicranopselaphus multimaculatus'' Pic, 1934 (Malaysia, Indonesia:

Kalimantan Kalimantan () is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area. The non-Indonesian parts of Borneo are Brunei and East Malaysia. In Indonesia, "Kalimantan" refers to the whole island of Borneo. In 2019, ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus nagaii'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Philippines) * '' Dicranopselaphus nantai'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus nepalensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus pictus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico:

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus raii'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Nepal:

Kathmandu , pushpin_map = Nepal Bagmati Province#Nepal#Asia , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Bagmati Prov ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus reticulatus'' Nakane, 1952 (

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Ryukyu islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus rufescens'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico: Veracruz) * '' Dicranopselaphus rufus'' Pic, 1916 (Malaysia,

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

, Thailand, China: Yunnan) * '' Dicranopselaphus sabahensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus sakaii'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Philippines) * '' Dicranopselaphus sarawacensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus schneideri'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Indonesia) * '' Dicranopselaphus septemspinosus'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

Kachin State Kachin State ( my, ကချင်ပြည်နယ်; Kachin: ), also known by the endonym Kachinland, is the northernmost state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet and Yunnan, specifically and respectively); Sh ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus sichuanensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus similis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus spadix'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Nepal: Kathmandu) * '' Dicranopselaphus sumatrensis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Indonesia: Sumatra) * '' Dicranopselaphus testaceicornis'' Pic, 1923 (China:

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus variegatus'' Horn, 1880 (USA:

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) (variegated false water penny beetle) * '' Dicranopselaphus venosus'' Champion, 1897

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