BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Foster, G.N. & Carr, R., 2004

The three smallest British Diving Beetles

How to find and recognise these three minute beetles and their habits, life cycles, distributions, the threats and conservation.

Journal British Wildlife
Volume Vol 15, No. 6
Page range 416-420
Illustrations Colour photographs, drawings of details of larve of Hydroporus scalesianus, distribution maps.
Identify Under a Stereo Microscope.
Specimen Prep. No dissection required.

Malcolm Storey

Taxonomic Scope

Bidessus minutissimus (Germar, 1824) (a diving beetle) Identification Current
Bidessus unistriatus (Schrank, 1781) (a diving beetle) Identification Current
Hydroporus scalesianus Stephens, 1828 (a diving beetle) Identification Current

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