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Megadytes

Miller, Kelly B.;Michat, Mariano C.;Ferreira Jr, Nelson

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Megadytes is a genus of diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. They are found in slow-moving or static freshwater habitats in the Neotropics. The adult beetles measure about long depending on the exact species and the largest is also the largest in the family (together with certain Dytiscus).

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyDytiscidae
Observations31

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
231
Family
Dytiscidae
Collections
MHNCA, IIZD-UASLP, KU
Recorded in
Mexico, Guyana, Venezuela

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Dytiscidae
Image
Dytiscidae - Megadytes glaucus.JPG
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taxon name
Megadytes
taxon rank
genus
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Category:Megadytes
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Megadytes
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Encyclopedic overview

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Megadytes is a genus of diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. They are found in slow-moving or static freshwater habitats in the Neotropics. The adult beetles measure about long depending on the exact species and the largest is also the largest in the family (together with certain Dytiscus).

==Species== Following reclassification in 2024, Megadytes now contains two described species: Megadytes latus (Fabricius, 1801) Megadytes parvus Trémouilles, 1984

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megadytes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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