Familia:Meruidae
Genus:Meru
Species:Meru phyllisae

Meru phyllisaeSpangler &Steiner, 2005

• Holotype:USNM. Male. Type locality: 40 km south of Puerto Ayacucho (2°14'N 63°45'W), at El Tobogán, district of Amazonas, Venezuela
  • Paratypes (many, unspecified sex)

• Spangler, P.J. &Steiner, W.E., Jr. 2005. A new aquatic beetle family, Meruidae, from Venezuela (Coleoptera: Adephaga).Systematic Entomology 30(3): 339–357.DOI:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00288.x.PDF.

• Alarie, Y.;Short, A.E.Z.;Garcia, M.;Joly, L.J. 2011: Larval morphology of Meruidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) and its phylogenetic implications.Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 104(1): 25–36.DOI:10.1603/AN10054

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