''Meridiorhantus'' is a genus of
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 ...
s 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.
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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
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