Peltochares
Peltochares is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae represented by eight described species. It is distributed across the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indo-Malayan, and Palaearctic realms.
Taxonomy
The genus Peltochares was described for the first time by Maurice Auguste Régimbart in 1907 for a single, large, and morphologically unusual species from Gabon.Thanks to the result of a molecular-based phylogenetic analysis, along with dissections of the male genitalia, several species formerly placed in the genus Helochares were confirmed to belong in the same genus as that large and morphologically unusual species.