Sphaerius

Familia: Sphaeriusidae
Genus:
Species: S. acaroides – S. africanus – S. alticola – S. coomani – S. gustavlohsei – S. hispanicus – S. humicola – S. laeviventris – S. madecassus – S. politus – S. obsoletus – S. ovensensis – S. perlaevis – S. silvicola – S. spississimus – S. tesselatus – S. texanus – S. tropicus

Species of unclear assignment: S. cribratus – S. favosus

Excluded from Sphaeriusidae: S. coenensis – S. scutellaris

Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Melville (1985), with the Name Number 2164; deleted and placed instead on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (2000)]

Gender: masculine (ICZN, 2000)

• Microsporus Kolenati, 1846 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Melville (1985), with the Name Number 2272]
• Neosphaerius Oke, 1954

• Microsporus Kolenati: Microsporus obsidianus Kolenati, 1846 [=Sphaerius acaroides Waltl, 1838], by monotypy (Melville, 1985)
• Neosphaerius Oke: Neosphaerius ovensiensis Oke, 1954
• Sphaerius Waltl: Sphaerius acaroides Waltl, 1838, by monotypy (ICZN, 2000)

• ICZN 2000. Opinion 1957. Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 (Insecta, Coleoptera): conserved; and Sphaeriidae Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera): spelling emended to Sphaeriusidae, so removing the homonymy with Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1854 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57(3): 182–184. BHL. Reference page. 
• Kolenati, F.A. 1846. Meletemata Entomologica. Fasc. V. Insecta Caucasi. Coleoptera, Dermaptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Mutillidae, Aphaniptera, Anopleura. Academia Imperialis Scientiarum, Petropoli. 169 + [Corrigenda] pp. BHL.
• Melville, R.V. 1985. Opinion 1331. Sphaeriidae Jeffreys, 1862 (1820) (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and Microsporidae Reichardt, 1976 (Insecta, Coleoptera): placed on the official list. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 230–232. BHL. Reference page. 
• Oke, C.G. 1954. Australian species of Sphaeriidae. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 65: 57–59.
• Waltl, J. 1838. Beiträge zur nähem naturhistorischen Kenntniß des Unterdonaukreises in Bayern. Isis von Oken 1838: 250–273. BHL.

• Britton, E.B. 1966. On the larva of Sphaerius and the systematic position of the Sphaeriidae (Coleoptera). Australian journal of zoology 14: 1193–1198. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9661193
• Endrödy-Younga, S. 1997. Microsporidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga), a new family for the African continent. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 36: 309–311. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_77 .
• Fikáček, M., Yamamoto, S., Matsumoto, K., Beutel, R.G. & Maddison, D.R. 2022. Phylogeny and systematics of Sphaeriusidae (Coleoptera: Myxophaga): minute living fossils with underestimated past and present-day diversity. Systematic Entomology 48(2): 233–249. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12571 . Reference page. 
• Jäch, M.A. 1999. Case 3052. Sphaerius Waltl, 1838 and Sphaeriusidae Erichson, 1845 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by the partial revocation of Opinion 1331. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 56: 117–120. Biostor
• Liang, Z-L. & Jia, F-L. 2018. A new species of Sphaerius Waltl from China (Coleoptera, Myxophaga, Sphaeriusidae). Zookeys, 808: 115–121. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.808.30600 Reference page. 
• Löbl, I. 1995. New species of terrestrial Microsporus from the Himalaya (Coleoptera: Microsporidae). Entomologische Blätter für Biologie und Systematik der Käfer 91: 129–138.

• Microsporus Kolenati, 1846 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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