Taxonavigation

Familia: Scirtidae
Subfamilia: Scirtinae
Genus: Petrocyphon
Species (10): P. antarcticus – P. arktous – P. bonang – P. dorrigoensis – P. hamoni – P. lacteus – P. messatos – P. monga – P. phoenix – P. televisionarius

Name

• Petrocyphon Watts, 2011 ZooBank
  • Authority for current placement: original
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Gender: [masculine]
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Type species: Petrocyphon antarcticus Watts, 2011
    • Fixation: original designation [p. 90]

References

• Watts, C.H.S. 2011: Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the genera Chameloscyphon gen. nov., Daploeuros gen. nov., Dasyscyphon gen. nov., Eurycyphon gen. nov., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon gen. nov. and Spaniosdascillus gen. nov. (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 135(1): 66-110. DOI: 10.1080/03721426.2011.11877485 .

• Zwick, P. 2012: Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 1. Additions to genus Petrocyphon. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 108: 159-180. [Not seen] Reference page. 

• Zwick, P. 2016. Australian Marsh Beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). 9. The relations of Australasian Ypsiloncyphon species to their Asian congeners, additions, mainly to Petrocyphon and Prionocyphon, and a key to Australian genera of Scirtinae. Zootaxa 4085(2): 151–198. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.1 .Reference page.