Genus Sternolophus Solier, 1834

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• Sternolophus Solier, A.J.J. 1834. Observations sur la tribu des Hydrophiliens, et principalement sur le genre Hydrophilus de Fabricius. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 299-318 [302, 310].

  Type species:

   Sternolophus rufipes Solier, 1834 by monotypy.
• Helobius Mulsant, E. 1851. Description dune Coléoptére nouveau de la famille des Hydrophiliens constituant un nouvelle coupe générique. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon, Classe des Sciences 1(2): 75–76 [75].

  Type species:

   Helobius noticollis Mulsant, 1851 by monotypy.
• Neosternolophus Zaitzev, F.A. 1909. Analytische Uebersicht der mir bekannten Arten der Gattung Sternolophus Solier nebst Bemerkungen über die anderen Arten dieser Gattung (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 8: 228–233 [dated 1908] [229].

  Type species:

   Hydrobius artensis Montrouzier, 1860 (=Hydrobius marginicollis Hope, 1841) by subsequent designation, see Watts, C.H.S. 1989. Revision of Australasian Sternolophus Solier (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 23(2): 89-95 [89].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nasserzadeh, H. & Komarek, A. 2017. Taxonomic revision of the water scavenger beetle genus Sternolophus Solier, 1834 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa 4282(2): 201-254 [203]

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Hansen, M. 1999. Hydrophiloidea (s.str.) (Coleoptera). pp. 1-416 in Hansen, M. (ed.). World Catalogue of Insects. Stenstrup : Apollo Books Vol. 2 416 pp. [206]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Details of nominate subspecies, not present in Australia

Sternolophus Solier, 1834

Sternolophus Solier, A.J.J. 1834. Observations sur la tribu des Hydrophiliens, et principalement sur le genre Hydrophilus de Fabricius. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 299-318 [302].
Type species: Sternolophus rufipes Solier, 1834 (=Sternolophus solieri Castelnau, 1840) by monotypy (junior secondary homonym of Hydrophilus rufipes Fabricius, 1792).

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