ADEPHAGA Clairville, 1806
(water and ground beetles)

Interactions where ADEPHAGA is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
body cavity body cavity of water beetles is endoparasitised by cyst Pleurogenes claviger a fluke Plagiorchiida: Lecithodendriidae Identification of Animal Parasites, Avery, R.A., 1974
 /Animalia/Platyhelminthes/Trematoda/Plagiorchiida/Lecithodendriidae/Pleurogenes claviger/Pleurogenes clavigera flukecyst Animal / parasite / endoparasite /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Adephaga/Adephagawater and ground beetlesbody cavitywater beetles cyst endoparasitises body cavity of water beetles

Author & YearTitleSource
Avery, R.A., 1974Identification of Animal ParasitesHulton Group Keys, 182pp, Hulton Educational Publications Ltd.

ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
CARABIDAE
ground beetles, tiger beetles
Family 177 subtaxa 210 trophisms 95 references
DYTISCIDAE
diving beetles
Family 11 subtaxa 2 trophisms 21 references
GYRINIDAE
whirligig beetles
Family 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 11 references
Gyrinus
whirligig beetles
Genus 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms
HALIPLIDAE
crawling water beetles
Family 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 9 references
Haliplus
a genus of crawling water beetles
Genus 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms
HYGROBIIDAE
screech beetles
Family 1 subtaxa 11 references
NOTERIDAE
noterus beetles
Family 8 references
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
() 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:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 548 images of ADEPHAGA (water and ground beetles)
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