Rodriguez, Georgina;Archangelsky, Miguel
Pelosoma
Sign in to savePelosoma is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are about seven described species in Pelosoma.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,490
- Family
- Hydrophilidae
- Collections
- FMNH, KU
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Guyana, Suriname, Panamá, Mexico, Guatemala
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Pelosoma is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are about seven described species in Pelosoma.
==Species== These seven species belong to the genus Pelosoma: Pelosoma lafertei Mulsant, 1844 Pelosoma mesosternalum Hinton & Ancona, 1934 Pelosoma orientale Pelosoma ovulum Sharp, 1887 Pelosoma pecki Smetana, 1984 Pelosoma prosternale Sharp, 1882 Pelosoma rufipes (Fleutiaux & Sallé, 1889)
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