Heterogyrus
| Heterogyrus milloti | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Gyrinidae |
| Subfamily: | Heterogyrinae |
| Genus: | Heterogyrus Legros, 1953 |
| Species: | H. milloti
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| Binomial name | |
| Heterogyrus milloti Legros, 1953
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Heterogyrus milloti is a species of beetle in the family Gyrinidae, the only species in the genus Heterogyrus.[1] It is endemic to Madagascar.
Within Gyrinidae, the genus Spanglerogyrus is sister to all other taxa; Heterogyrus is, in turn, sister to all gyrinids except Spanglerogyrus, with an estimated divergence 200 million years ago.[2][3][4] It is suggested to be closely related to the fossil genera Mesogyrus, Cretotortor and Baissogyrus which constitute the subfamily Heterogyrinae.[2]
References
- ^ Gyrinidae Species List Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 9 May 2012.
- ^ a b Gustafson, Grey T.; Prokin, Alexander A.; Bukontaite, Rasa; Bergsten, Johannes; Miller, Kelly B. (2017-08-22). "Tip-dated phylogeny of whirligig beetles reveals ancient lineage surviving on Madagascar". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 8619. Bibcode:2017NatSR...7.8619G. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08403-1. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5567340. PMID 28831048.
- ^ Miller, Kelly B.; Bergsten, Johannes (October 2012). "Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed‐clock model outperforms parsimony and time‐free Bayesian analyses". Systematic Entomology. 37 (4): 706–746. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00640.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
- ^ Beutel, Rolf G.; Yan, Evgeny; Yavorskaya, Margarita; Büsse, Sebastian; Gorb, Stanislav N.; Wipfler, Benjamin (April 2019). "On the thoracic anatomy of the Madagascan Heterogyrus milloti and the phylogeny of Gyrinidae (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (2): 336–360. doi:10.1111/syen.12325. ISSN 0307-6970.