Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus, 1758
(Great Diving Beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle)
Genus	Dytiscus (a genus of diving beetles)
Subfamily	DYTISCINAE (a subfamily of water beetles)
Family	DYTISCIDAE (diving 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)

Dytiscus marginalis is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Dytiscidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Records of Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle) :
1: Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle)
18 Jun 1978	OSGR: SU94	51° 10’ N, 0° 40’ W	Vice County: Surrey (VC 17)	England
in pond

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds)	2006	A Coleopterist’s handbook	The Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society

Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DYTISCIDAE
(diving beetles)

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)

water beetles
(water beetles)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Dytiscus marginalis (Great Diving Beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Dytiscus marginalis is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)