Paroster

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Hydroporinae
Tribus: Hydroporini
Genus: Paroster

Species: P. baylyi – P. michaelseni – P. peelensis – P. thapsinus – P. ursulae
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Name

Paroster Sharp, 1882
Synonyms

Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, 2001 [syn. Leys & Watts (2008: 219)]

References

Alarie, Y.; Michat, M.C.; Watts, C.H.S. 2009: Larval morphology of Paroster Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae): reinforcement of the hypothesis of monophyletic origin and discussion of phenotypic accommodation to a hypogaeic environment. Zootaxa, 2274: 1–44. Abstract & excerpt
Hendrich, L.; Fery, H. 2008: Paroster baylyi sp. n., P. ursulae sp. n. (Col. Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae) and the water beetle diversity of pan-gnammas on isolated granite outcrops in the Mallee of south-western Australia. Zootaxa, 1704: 27–41. Abstract & excerpt
Leys, R.; Watts, C.H. 2008: Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus. Invertebrate systematics, 22: 217–225. DOI: 10.1071/IS07034
Watts, C.H.S.; Hancock, P.J.; Leys, R. 2008: Paroster peelensis sp. nov.: a new stygobitic water beetle from alluvial gravels in northern New South Wales (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Australian journal of entomology, 47: 227–231. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2008.00650.x
Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2001: A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum, 34: 99–114. PDF
Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2003: Twenty-five new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys, Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys and Bidessodes Regimbart from underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum, 36: 135–188. PDF
Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2004: Thirteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Boongurrus Larson, Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys and Nirripirti Watts and Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 128: 99–130. PDF
Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2006: Twenty-six new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 130: 123–185.
Watts, C.H.S.; Humphreys, W.F. 2009: Fourteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Limbodessus Guignot, Paroster Sharp, and Exocelina Broun from underground waters in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 133: 62–107.
Watts, C.H.S.; Leys, R. 2008: Review of the epigean species of Paroster SHARP, 1882, with descriptions of three new species, and phylogeny based on DNA sequence data of two mitochondrial genes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 78 : 9–36.

Links

Australian Faunal Directory
ION search for Paroster
ION search for Nirripirti
Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Paroster
Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Nirripirti

Paroster is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae, containing the following species:[2]

Paroster couragei Watts, 1978[1]
Paroster gibbi Watts, 1978[1]
Paroster insculptilis (Clark, 1862)[1]
Paroster michaelseni Régimbart, 1908[1]
Paroster niger Watts, 1978[1]
Paroster nigroadumbratus (Clark, 1862)[1]
Paroster pallescens Sharp, 1882[1]
Paroster sharpi Watts, 1978[1]
Paroster thapsinus (Guignot, 1955)

together with these (listed as valid by the Australian Faunal Directory):[1]

Paroster anophthalmus (Brancucci & Monteith, 1997)
Paroster arachnoides (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster baylyi Hendrich & Fery, 2008
Paroster bulbus (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster byroensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster caecus (Watts, 1982)
Paroster copidotibiae (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster darlotensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster dingbatensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster eurypleuron (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster extraordinarius Leys, Roudnew & Watts, 2010
Paroster fortisspina (Watts & Humphreys, 2003
Paroster hamoni (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster hinzeae (Watts & Humphreys, 2001)
Paroster innouendyensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster killaraensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster macrocephalus (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster macrosturtensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2006)
Paroster megamacrocephalus (Watts & Humphreys, 2006)
PParoster mesosturtensis (Watts & Humpreys, 2006)
Paroster microsturtensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2006)
Paroster milgunensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster napperbyensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster newhavenensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster peelensis Watts, Hancock & Leys, 2008
Paroster pentameres (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster plutonicensis (Watts & Humpheys, 2003)
Paroster septum (Watts & Humphreys, 2006)
Paroster skaphites (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster stegastos (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)
Paroster tetrameres (Watts & Humphreys, 2006)
Paroster ursulae Hendrich & Balke, 2008
Paroster verrucosus (Watts & Humphreys, 2004)
Paroster wedgeensis (Watts & Humphreys, 2003)

References

"Australian Faunal Directory: Paroster nameslist". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
Dytiscidae Species List Archived October 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.