Crephelochares
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| Crephelochares | |
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| Dorsal view of Crephelochares nitescens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Staphyliniformia |
| Family: | Hydrophilidae |
| Subfamily: | Acidocerinae |
| Genus: | Crephelochares Kuwert, 1890 |
| Diversity | |
| 29 species | |
Crephelochares is a genus of water scavenger beetle in the family Hydrophilidae represented by 29 described species.[1] It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms. [1]
The genus Crephelochares was described for the first time by August Ferdinand Kuwert in 1890 [2] as a subgenus of the genus Helochares.
Then it was considered a synonym of Chasmogenus,[3] but thanks to the results of a phylogenetic analysis involving molecular data,[4] both taxa are now considered distinct genera on their own right. [1]
