Hydrophilus piceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Great Silver Water Beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Hydrophilus piceus (Great Silver Water Beetle)
Subfamily	HYDROPHILINAE (a subfamily of water beetles)
Family	HYDROPHILIDAE (a family of scavenger water beetles)
Superfamily	HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water 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)

Hydrophilus piceus is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Hydrophilidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

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
	O’Neill, P & Beebee, T.J.C	2005	The Great Silver Water Beetle in Britan - a cry for help	British Wildlife Vol 6, No 4.: 265-269.

Hydrophilus piceus (Great Silver Water Beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

HYDROPHILIDAE
(a family of scavenger water beetles)

HYDROPHILOIDEA
(scavenger water 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 Hydrophilus piceus (Great Silver Water Beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Hydrophilus piceus (Great Silver Water Beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Hydrophilus piceus is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)