Crenitis Explained

Crenitis is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae. There are about 19 described species in Crenitis.

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Crenitis:

• Crenitis aduncata
• Crenitis alticola (Fall, 1924)
• Crenitis apicalis Reitter, 1896
• Crenitis convexa Ji & Komarek, 2003
• Crenitis digesta (LeConte, 1855)
• Crenitis dissimilis (Horn, 1873)
• Crenitis formosana Hebauer, 1994
• Crenitis lianggeqiui
• Crenitis longula (Fall, 1924)
• Crenitis maculifrons Brown, 1940
• Crenitis malkini Miller, 1965
• Crenitis monticola (Horn, 1890)
• Crenitis morata (Horn, 1890)
• Crenitis obovata
• Crenitis palpalis Miller, 1965
• Crenitis paradigma (Orchymont, 1942)
• Crenitis rufiventris (Horn, 1873)
• Crenitis satoi Hebauer, 1994
• Crenitis snoqualmie Miller, 1965

Further reading

• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. 2015. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-90-04-29685-5.