Delevea

Delevea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Torridincolidae
Subfamily: Deleveinae
Endrödy-Younga, 1997
Genus: Delevea
Reichardt, 1976

Delevea is a genus of Southern African beetles in the family Torridincolidae, containing:

At 2.85 mm of adult body length, Delevea namaqua is the largest species in all of the beetle suborder Myxophaga.

References

  1. 1 2 Bilton, David T.; Mlambo, Musa C. (2023). "A revision of Delevea Reichardt, 1976: A Southern African endemic water beetle genus including the largest known extant myxophagans (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae)". Zootaxa. 5285 (2): 311–324. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5285.2.5. PMID 37518704.
  2. ↑ Torridincolidae Species List Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.