HYDRAENIDAE Mulsant, 1844
(small water beetles)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	HYDRAENIDAE (small water beetles)
Superfamily	STAPHYLINOIDEA (rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)
Series	Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial 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)

HYDRAENIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Denton, J.	2013	Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera	70pp
()	Duff, A.G.	2012	Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Sphaeriusidae to Silphidae	Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 1, 496pp
	Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)		Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 3: Adephaga 2.	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 3, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld

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

STAPHYLINOIDEA
(rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for HYDRAENIDAE (small water beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for HYDRAENIDAE (small water beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

HYDRAENIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)