title: Brownephilus
text: # Brownephilus
  
  Brownephilus is a genus of water scavenger beetles in the family Hydrophilidae containing two described species. Brownephilus was formerly a subgenus of Hydrobiomorpha and was elevated to genus by Andrew E.Z. Short in 2010.
  
  ## Species
  
  These two species belong to the genus Brownephilus:
  
  * Brownephilus levantinus (Balfour-Browne, 1939)
  * Brownephilus major (İncerkara, Mart, Polat & Karaca, 2009)
  