''Bifurcitus'' is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
s in the
dytiscid subfamily
Cybistrinae that occur in the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeog ...
. The genus contains three species, two extant and one presumed extinct; they were previously classified in the genus ''
Megadytes''.
* †''
Bifurcitus ducalis
''Bifurcitus ducalis'', formerly ''Megadytes ducalis'', is a species of water beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is the largest species in the family. Until recently, the species was only known from a single specimen that was collected in the 19 ...
''
(Sharp, 1882)
* ''
Bifurcitus lherminieri''
(Guérin-Méneville, 1829)
* ''
Bifurcitus magnus''
(Trémouilles & Bachmann, 1980)
References
Dytiscidae
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