Taxonavigation

Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Colymbetinae
Tribus: Colymbetini
Genus: Meladema
Species (4): M. coriacea – M. imbricata – M. lanio – M. lepidoptera

Name

Meladema Laporte de Castelnau, 1835

References

• Laporte 1835 Études Entom., (2) 98.

• Bilton, D.T. & Ribera, I. 2017. A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology. ZooKeys 702: 45—112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.702.14787 . Reference page. 

• Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T. & Cardoso, A. 2018. The Meladema Laporte, 1835 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) of the Sahara Desert. Zootaxa 4399(1): 119–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.7 Reference page. 
• Ribera, I.; Bilton, D.T.; Vogler, A.P. 2003: Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of Meladema diving beetles on the Atlantic Islands and in the Mediterranean basin (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Molecular ecology, 12(1): 153–167. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01711.x PDF