''Dicranopselaphus'' is a genus of water-penny beetles in the family

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. There are over 40 described species in ''Dicranopselaphus'', distributed in

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and

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Species

These species belong to the genus ''Dicranopselaphus'': * '' Dicranopselaphus bicolor'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus brevicornis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus dentatus'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

Meghalaya Meghalaya (; "the abode of clouds") is a states and union territories of India, state in northeast India. Its capital is Shillong. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the Assam: the United Khasi Hills an ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus doiinthanonus'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

Laos Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus emasensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus emmanueli''

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, 1918 (

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, Malaysia, Indonesia:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus fangensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

) * '' Dicranopselaphus flavicornis'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus flavus'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus gressitti'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (China:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus imparis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Vietnam:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus jaechi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Indonesia:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus javanus'' Pic, 1916 (Indonesia: Java) * '' Dicranopselaphus jiangxiensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus laevis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Vietnam:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus lesueurii'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico) * '' Dicranopselaphus luzonensis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

Luzon Luzon ( , ) is the largest and most populous List of islands in the Philippines, island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the List of islands of the Philippines, Philippine archipelago, it is the economic and political ce ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus malickyi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Thailand) * '' Dicranopselaphus morimotoi'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Thailand) * '' Dicranopselaphus multimaculatus'' Pic, 1934 (Malaysia, Indonesia:

Kalimantan Kalimantan (; ) is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. It constitutes 73% of the island's area, and consists of the provinces of Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan. The non-Ind ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus nagaii'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Philippines) * '' Dicranopselaphus nantai'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus nepalensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus pictus'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico:

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) * '' Dicranopselaphus raii'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Nepal:

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus reticulatus'' Nakane, 1952 (

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Geography of Taiwan, Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands (Ōsumi Islands, Ōsumi, Tokara Islands, Tokara and A ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus rufescens'' Guérin-Méneville, 1861 (Mexico: Veracruz) * '' Dicranopselaphus rufus'' Pic, 1916 (Malaysia,

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

, Thailand, China: Yunnan) * '' Dicranopselaphus sabahensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus sakaii'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Philippines) * '' Dicranopselaphus sarawacensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Malaysia) * '' Dicranopselaphus schneideri'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (Indonesia) * '' Dicranopselaphus septemspinosus'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

Kachin State Kachin State (; Jingpho language, Kachin: ) is the northernmost administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. It is bordered by China to the north and east (Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet and Yunnan, respectively), Shan State to the sou ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus sichuanensis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus similis'' Lee & Yang, 1996 (China:

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus spadix'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Nepal: Kathmandu) * '' Dicranopselaphus sumatrensis'' Lee, Yang & Satô, 2000 (Indonesia: Sumatra) * '' Dicranopselaphus testaceicornis'' Pic, 1923 (China:

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

) * '' Dicranopselaphus variegatus'' Horn, 1880 (USA:

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) (variegated false water penny beetle) * '' Dicranopselaphus venosus'' Champion, 1897

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