GYRINIDAE Latreille, 1810
(whirligig beetles)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Gyrinus whirligig beetles					Genus	1 subtaxa	6 images
Gyrinidae (unidentified) Unidentified Whirligig Beetles					Unidentified		2 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)
Suborder	ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

GYRINIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Balfour-Brown, F.	1940	British water beetles	Vols 127, 134 & 141, The Ray Society, London
	Balfour-Browne, F.L.	1953	* Coleoptera: Hydradephaga *(Superseded)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IV, Part 3, 33pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Denton, J.	2013	Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera	70pp
	Foster, G.	2009	Module 7: advanced identification of water beetles (Coleoptera)	https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course
	Foster, G.	2008	Whirligigs in Britain and Ireland	British Wildlife Vol 20, No. 1: 28-35.
	Foster, G.N. & Friday, L.E.	2011	Keys to adults of the Water beetles of Britain & Ireland (part 1)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 4, Part 5, 2nd edition edition, 143pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)		Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 3: Adephaga 2.	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 3, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
	Holmen, M.	1987	The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Volume I. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 20, 168pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

ADEPHAGA
(water and ground beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)

BioInfo

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)

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