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Dytiscinae

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Dytiscinae
Dytiscus carolinus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Subfamily: Dytiscinae
Leach, 1815

Dytiscinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 20 genera and 380 described species in Dytiscinae.[1][2][3][4]

Cybister fimbriolatus
Larva of Aciliini

Genera

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References

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  1. ^ "Dytiscinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Dytiscinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
  3. ^ Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology". ZooKeys 702: 45-112.
  4. ^ Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.
  • D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC 43253.
  • Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
  • Nilsson, Anders N. (2001). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera), 395.

Further reading

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  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.