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Dytiscidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
FAMILY
Published in
<i>Zool. Miscell.</i>, <b>3</b>: 69

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Dytiscidae

Name

Homonyms
Dytiscidae
Common names
Predaceous Diving Beetle in English
Predaceous Diving Beetles in English
Vandkalve in Danish
ditiques in French
ditiques in French
diving beetles in English
diving beetles in English
predaceous diving beetle in English
predaceous diving beetles in English
predaceous diving beetles in English
predacious diving beetles in language.
waterroofkevers, zwemtorren, zwemkevers in Dutch
dykare in Swedish
Diving Beetles in English
diving beetles in English
dykare in Swedish
vannkalver in Norwegian Bokmål
vasskalvar in Nynorsk, Norwegian
waterroofkevers in Dutch
ゲンゴロウ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  2. Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp.
  3. Blackwelder RE. (1944). Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, The West Indies, and South America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 185: 1–1492. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7876356 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7876356
  4. Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence J, Lyal C, Newton A, Reid C, Schmitt M, Slipinski A, Smith A. (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807 https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807
  5. Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Slipinski, A.; Smith, A. (2011). Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 88: 1-972. 10.3897/zookeys.88.807
  6. D. J. Larson,G. Pritchard (06/1974) Organs of Possible Stridulatory Function in Water-Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
  7. Drost, M.B.P. et al. (1992)
  8. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2011-02-08 23:00:00) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  9. Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
  10. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 619 Acilius Leach, 1817 (Insecta, Coleoptera); preservation by use of the Plenary Powers to var. the ruling given in Opinion 522.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 18, 369-371 (1961)
  11. Klausnitzer, B. (1991)
  12. Larson DJ, Alarie Y, Roughley RE (2000) Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC Research Press, Ottawa. xiv + 982 pp.
  13. Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds., 1995: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2. 779-1006.
  14. Leach W.E. (1815). Entomology. Pp. 57-172. In: Brewster D. (Ed.): The Edinburgh encyclopaedia. Vol. 9. Part 1. Edinburgh: Baldwin, 384 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17493547
  15. Miller K.B. & Bergsten J. (2014). The phylogeny and classification of predaceous diving beetles, pp. 49-171. In: Yee D.A. (ed.). Ecology, systematics, and the natural history of predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). New York: Springer, 468 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9109-0_3
  16. Nilsson AN and Hajek J. (2021). A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Version 1.I.2021. 1-315. https://waterbeetles.eu/documents/W_CAT_Dytiscidae_2021.pdf
  17. Nilsson, A.N. (1996)
  18. Nilsson, Anders N., 2001: null. World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). 395.
  19. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
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