HYDROPHILOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(scavenger water beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
GEORISSIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 1 ident. refs
HELOPHORIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 1 subtaxa 6 images 2 ident. refs
Helophorus
a genus of scavenger water beetles
Female (Click to open)
 		Genus 1 subtaxa 6 images
HISTERIDAE
clown beetles
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 		Family 4 subtaxa 4 images 4 ident. refs
HYDROCHIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 2 ident. refs
HYDROPHILIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
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 		Family 5 subtaxa 23 images 8 ident. refs
SPERCHEIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 2 ident. refs
SPHAERITIDAE
sphaeritid beetles
Family 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyHYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)
Series Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial 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
Foster, G.N., Bilton, D.T. & Friday, L.E. 2014 Keys to adults of the Water beetles of Britain & Ireland (part 2) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 4, Part 5b, 2nd edition edition, 126pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Hansen, M. 1987 The Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 18, 234pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 21 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)
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