ADEPHAGA Clairville, 1806
(water and ground beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
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Family 90 subtaxa 399 images 85 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Family 22 subtaxa 121 images 17 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Family 2 subtaxa 8 images 8 ident. refs
Family 1 subtaxa 6 images 7 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 6 images
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Family 1 subtaxa 7 images 8 ident. refs
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Family 1 subtaxa 7 images 6 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuborderADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Duff, A.G. 2012 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Sphaeriusidae to Silphidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, 496pp
Guignot, F. 1947 *** Coléoptères Hydrocanthares ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 48, 286pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 217 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)
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