Genus Amphiops Erichson, 1843

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• Amphiops Erichson, W.F. 1843. Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Angola, in besondere Beziehung zur geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten in Afrika. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 9(1): 199–267 [229].

  Type species:

   Hydrophilus gibbus Illiger, 1801 by subsequent designation, see Knisch, A, 1924. Hydrophilidae. Pars 79. pp. 1-306 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 79 306 pp. [259].
• Cyprimorphus Fairmaire, L. in Fairmaire, L. & Raffray, A. 1873. Coléoptères du Nord de l'Afrique. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 3 1: 331-385 [334].

  Type species:

   Cyprimorphus compressus Fairmaire, 1873 (=Coelostoma senegalense Castelnau, 1840) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zaitzev, F.A. 1908. Catalogue des Coléoptères aquatiques des familles Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Cyathoceridae, Heteroceridae et Hydrophilidae. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 38: 283-420 [399]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Short, A.E.Z. & Fikacek, M. 2013. Molecular phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Hydrophilidae (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 38: 723-752 [736] (herein transferred from former position in subfamily Hydrophilinae, tribe Chaetarthriini)

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