''Rhantus'' is a genus of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

in family

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 a ...

. There are about 100 species distributed worldwide. They often live in pools and

marsh A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at ...

y 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. 2013
Taxonomic revision of Madagascan ''Rhantus'' (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae) with an emphasis on Manjakatompo as a conservation priority.
''ZooKeys'' 350 21-45. This genus is

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

and will likely be revised, redefined, and split into several groups in future studies. As a result of research published in 2017 by Balke et al., 17 species were moved from ''Rhantus'' to the genera '' Nartus'', '' Meridiorhantus'', '' Caperhantus'', and ''

Carabdytes ''Carabdytes'' is a genus of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae The Dytiscidae – based on the Greek ''dytikos'' (δυτικός), "able to dive" – are the predaceous diving beetles, a family of water beetles. They ...

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Species

Rhantus suturellus (M`Leay, 1825) (3979392329) (2)

These species belong to the genus ''Rhantus'': * '' Rhantus advena'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus alluaudi'' Peschet, 1910 * '' Rhantus andinus'' Balke, 1998 * '' Rhantus anggi'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus anisonychus'' Crotch, 1873 * '' Rhantus annectens'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus atricolor'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus bacchusi'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus binotatus'' (Harris, 1828) * '' Rhantus bistriatus'' (Bergsträsser, 1778) * '' Rhantus blancasi'' Guignot, 1955 * '' Rhantus bohlei'' Balke, Roughley, Sondermann & Spangler, 2002 * '' Rhantus bouvieri'' Régimbart, 1900 * '' Rhantus bula'' Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007 * '' Rhantus calileguai'' Trémouilles, 1984 * '' Rhantus capensis'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus cheesmanae'' Balke, 1993 * '' Rhantus colymbitoides'' Gschwendtner, 1932 * '' Rhantus concolorans'' (Wallengren, 1881) * '' Rhantus consimilis'' Motschulsky, 1859 * '' Rhantus consputus'' (Sturm, 1834) * '' Rhantus crypticus'' Balke, 1992 * '' Rhantus dani'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus debilis'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus discicollis'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus duponti'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus ekari'' Balke & Hendrich, 1992 * '' Rhantus elegans'' C.O. Waterhouse, 1895 * '' Rhantus elisabethae'' Balke, Kinibel & Sagata, 2007 * '' Rhantus englundi'' Balke & Ramsdale, 2006 * '' Rhantus erraticus'' Sharp, 1884 * '' Rhantus exsoletus'' (Forster, 1771) * '' Rhantus fengi'' Zhao, Jia & Balke, 2011 * '' Rhantus fennicus'' Huldén, 1982 * '' Rhantus formosanus'' Kamiya, 1938 * '' Rhantus franzi'' Balke, 1998 * '' Rhantus friedrichi'' Falkenström, 1936 * '' Rhantus frontalis'' (Marsham, 1802) * '' Rhantus galapagoensis'' Balke & Peck, 1993 * '' Rhantus gogonensis'' Wewalka, 1975 * '' Rhantus gutticollis'' (Say, 1830) * '' Rhantus hiekei'' Balke, 1993 * '' Rhantus hispanicus'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus includens'' (Walker, 1871) * '' Rhantus incognitus'' Scholz, 1927 * '' Rhantus interclusus'' (Walker, 1858) * '' Rhantus intermedius'' Balke, 1993 * '' Rhantus kakapupu'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus kini'' Balke, Wewalka, Alarie & Ribera, 2007 * '' Rhantus latitans'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus latus'' (Fairmaire, 1869) * '' Rhantus leuser'' Balke, 1998 * '' Rhantus liopteroides'' Zimmermann, 1927 * '' Rhantus longulus'' Régimbart, 1895 * '' Rhantus manjakatompo'' Pederzani & Rocchi, 2009 * '' Rhantus notaticollis'' (Aubé, 1837) * '' Rhantus obscuricollis'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus ovalis'' Gschwendtner, 1936 * '' Rhantus papuanus'' J. Balfour-Browne, 1939 * '' Rhantus pederzanii'' Toledo & Mazzoldi, 1996 * '' Rhantus peruvianus'' Guignot, 1955 * '' Rhantus phocaenarum'' Guignot, 1957 * '' Rhantus riedeli'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus rohani'' Peschet, 1924 * '' Rhantus rufus'' Zimmermann, 1922 * '' Rhantus rugulosus'' Régimbart, 1899 * '' Rhantus schauinslandi'' Ordish, 1989 * '' Rhantus schereri'' Balke, 1990 * '' Rhantus selkirki'' Jäch, Balke & Michat, 2014 * '' Rhantus sericans'' Sharp, 1882 * '' Rhantus sexualis'' Zimmermann, 1919 * '' Rhantus signatus'' (Fabricius, 1775) * '' Rhantus sikkimensis'' Régimbart, 1899 * '' Rhantus simulans'' Régimbart, 1908 * '' Rhantus socialis'' (C.O. Waterhouse, 1876) * '' Rhantus souzannae'' Balke, 1990 * '' Rhantus supranubicus'' Balke, 2001 * '' Rhantus suturalis'' (W.S. Macleay, 1825) * '' Rhantus suturellus'' (Harris, 1828) * '' Rhantus taprobanicus'' Sharp, 1890 * '' Rhantus thibetanus'' Régimbart, 1899 * '' Rhantus tigris'' Balke, 1995 * '' Rhantus tristanicola'' (Brinck, 1948) * '' Rhantus vermiculatus'' Motschulsky, 1860 * '' Rhantus vicinus'' (Aubé, 1838) * '' Rhantus vinsoni'' Balke, 1992 * '' Rhantus vitiensis'' J. Balfour-Browne, 1944 * '' Rhantus wallisi'' Hatch, 1953 * '' Rhantus wittei'' Gschwendtner, 1938 * '' Rhantus yessoensis'' Sharp, 1891 * † '' Rhantus praesuturellus'' Nomnicki, 1894

References

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