Rhantus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Dytiscidae
- Genus
- Rhantus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Rhantus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
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. Several species have colonized oceanic islands and become endemics.
This genus is paraphyletic 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.
...Rhantus in languages:
- Estonian
- kabeujurid
- Finnish
- rantusukeltajat
- Japanese
- ヒメゲンゴロウ属
- Russian
- Ильники
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Rhantus andinus
- Rhantus anisonychus
- Rhantus annectens
- Rhantus atricolor
- Rhantus bacchusi
- Rhantus binotatus
- Rhantus bistriatus
- Rhantus bogotensis
- Rhantus bohlei
- Rhantus bouvieri
- Rhantus bula
- Rhantus capensis
- Rhantus cheesmanae
- Rhantus concolorans
- Rhantus consimilis
- Rhantus consputus
- Rhantus crypticus
- Rhantus dani
- Rhantus debilis
- Rhantus ekari
- Rhantus elegans
- Rhantus elisabethae
- Rhantus englundi
- Rhantus erraticus
- Rhantus exsoletus
- Rhantus fennicus
- Rhantus franzi
- Rhantus frontalis
- Rhantus galapagoensis
- Rhantus gutticollis
- Rhantus hispanicus
- Rhantus includens
- Rhantus incognitus
- Rhantus interclusus
- Rhantus intermedius
- Rhantus kini
- Rhantus latitans
- Rhantus lattkei
- Rhantus latus
- Rhantus longulus
- Rhantus marahuaca
- Rhantus notaticollis
- Rhantus ovalis
- Rhantus papuanus
- Rhantus pederzanii
- Rhantus peruvianus
- Rhantus phocaenarum
- Rhantus pulverosus
- Rhantus riedeli
- Rhantus schauinslandi
- Rhantus schereri
- Rhantus sericans
- Rhantus sexualis
- Rhantus signatus
- Rhantus sikkimensis
- Rhantus simulans
- Rhantus socialis
- Rhantus souzannae
- Rhantus supranubicus
- Rhantus suturalis
- Rhantus suturellus
- Rhantus tristanicola
- Rhantus vermiculatus
- Rhantus vicinus
- Rhantus vinsoni
- Rhantus vitiensis
- Rhantus wallisi
- Rhantus yessoensis






























































































































































