Hydrophiloidea, Latreille, 1802

Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2016 (460), pp. 1-360 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5182961

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hydrophiloidea
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Superfamily Hydrophiloidea View in CoL

18. FAMILY HYDROPHILIDAE , the water scavenger beetles

These beetles occur as active swimmers in a variety of aquatic habitats. The larvae are usually predators while the adults may be vegetarian, omnivores, scavengers, or occasional predators. The subfamily Sphaeridiinae contains semi-terrestrial scavengers in fresh mammal dung or moist decaying plant matter. Hansen (1999) is a world catalog of the family. Alfred F. Newton (AFN) has supplied some records from an unpublished database catalog.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

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