Phreatodytes contains a single subterranean species taken from wells in Japan. Ueno (1957) considered it intermediate between the Amphizoidae and Noteridae, and placed it in a new family, the Phreatodytidae. Beutel and Roughley (1987) consider it a primitive noterid and a sister group of all remaining Noteridae.
Checklist of Species of Phreatodytes
- Phreatodytes relictus Ueno 1957:257
Literature Cited
Beutel, R. G. and R. E. Roughley.
- 1987. On the systematic position of the genus Notomicrus Sharp (Hydradephaga, Coleoptera). Canadian J. Zool. 65(8):1898-1905.
- 1957. Blind aquatic beetles of Japan, with some accounts of the fauna of Japanese subterranean waters. Arch. f. Hydrobiol. 53(2):250-296.
Revised 19 October 1995
Warren U. Brigham
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