Dasycerus
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, 1882Dasycerus audax Löbl, 1988Dasycerus beloni Pic, 1905Dasycerus bicolor Wheeler, Q. D. & McHugh, 1994Dasycerus carolinensis Horn, 1882Dasycerus chattooga Dasycerus concolor Löbl & Calame, 1996Dasycerus cornutus Löbl, 1977Dasycerus crenatus Motschulsky, 1839Dasycerus egwanulti Dasycerus elongatus Reitter, 1875Dasycerus fasciatus Löbl, 1977Dasycerus gadalutsi Dasycerus inexspectatus Löbl, 1986Dasycerus itseyi Dasycerus japonicus Nakane, 1963Dasycerus jonicus Reitter, 1884Dasycerus monticola Löbl, 1988Dasycerus nikwasi Dasycerus numidicus Pic, 1905Dasycerus occultus Hashizume & Maruyama, 2022Dasycerus pacolet Dasycerus poseidon Hu, Fang-Shuo & Wei-Ren Liang, 2021Dasycerus sulcatus Brongniart, 1800Dasycerus tuckasegee Dasycerus virginiensis- ''Dasycerus unicoi''