Pachysternum Motschulsky, 1863

Fikáček, Martin, Jia, Fenglong & Prokin, Alexander, 2012, A review of the Asian species of the genus Pachysternum (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae), Zootaxa 3219, pp. 1-53 : 4

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6180426
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scientific name	Pachysternum Motschulsky, 1863
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Type species. Pachysternum nigrovittatum Motschulsky, 1863 (designated by Knisch 1924a: 158). Composition. Contains ten Oriental species, one species distributed in eastern Palaearctic, and 14 African species (one of them, P. capense , also now occurs in Europe and Australia).

References

Knisch, A. (1924) Coleopterorum Catalogus, volume 14, pars 79, Hydrophilidae. W. Junk, Berlin, 306 pp.

Motschulsky, V. (1863) Essai d'un Catalogue des insectes d'Ile Ceylan. Bulletin de la Societe imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 32, 2 (1), 122 - 185 + 357 - 410.