DRYOPIDAE Billberg, 1820 (1817)
(long-toed water beetles)

DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

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Dryops
a genus of long-toed water beetles
Genus 2 subtaxa 4 trophisms 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyDRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles)
SuperfamilyBYRRHOIDEA (a superfamily of beetles)
Series Elateriformia (click beetles and relatives)
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Denton, J. 2013 Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera 70pp
Hackston, M. 2015 Family Dryopidae key to UK species https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/Home/keys-to-coleoptera/dryopidae

DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Foster, G.N. 2000 A review of the scarce and threatened Coleoptera of Great Britain. Part 3: Aquatic Coleoptera 226pp, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 11 images of DRYOPIDAE (long-toed water beetles)
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