DYTISCIDAE Leach, 1815
(diving beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 5 subtaxa 37 images 3 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 10 images 1 ident. refs
Larva (Click to open)
Subfamily 4 subtaxa 18 images 3 ident. refs
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Subfamily 11 subtaxa 56 images 3 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyDYTISCIDAE (diving beetles)
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
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Balfour-Browne, F.L. 1953 *** Coleoptera: Hydradephaga ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IV, Part 3, 33pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London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.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
Nilsson, A.N. & Holmen, M. 2000 The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Volume II. Dytiscidae Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 32, 192pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

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

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DYTISCIDAE (diving beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DYTISCIDAE (diving beetles)
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