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.[1] Several species have colonized oceanic islands and become endemics.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Tribe: | Colymbetini |
| Genus: | Rhantus |
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This genus is paraphyletic and will likely be revised, redefined, and split into several groups in future studies.[2] 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.[3]
Species edit
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These species belong to the genus Rhantus:[4]
- 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 edit
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- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Balke, Michael; Hájek, Jiří; Hendrich, Lars (2017). "Generic reclassification of species formerly included in Rhantus Dejean (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae)". Zootaxa. 4258 (1): 91–100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.7. PMID 28609937.
- ^ Nilsson, Anders N.; Hájek, Jiří (2018). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2018 (PDF).
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