Dasycerus is the only extant genus in the rove beetle subfamily Dasycerinae. It contains 25 currently recognized species, with a new species described as recently as 2022. Even more recently, nine cryptic species have been discovered in 2024, previously presumed to be D. carolinensis. They are only distinguishable through male aedeagal dissection or DNA analysis.
Species
Species are:
Dasycerus angulicollis Horn, 1882 Dasycerus audax Löbl, 1988 Dasycerus beloni Pic, 1905 Dasycerus bicolor Wheeler, Q. D. & McHugh, 1994 Dasycerus carolinensis Horn, 1882 Dasycerus chattooga Dasycerus concolor Löbl & Calame, 1996 Dasycerus cornutus Löbl, 1977 Dasycerus crenatus Motschulsky, 1839 Dasycerus egwanulti Dasycerus elongatus Reitter, 1875 Dasycerus fasciatus Löbl, 1977 Dasycerus gadalutsi Dasycerus inexspectatus Löbl, 1986 Dasycerus itseyi Dasycerus japonicus Nakane, 1963 Dasycerus jonicus Reitter, 1884 Dasycerus monticola Löbl, 1988 Dasycerus nikwasi Dasycerus numidicus Pic, 1905 Dasycerus occultus Hashizume & Maruyama, 2022 Dasycerus pacolet Dasycerus poseidon Hu, Fang-Shuo & Wei-Ren Liang, 2021 Dasycerus sulcatus Brongniart, 1800 Dasycerus tuckasegee Dasycerus virginiensis Dasycerus unicoi
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