Dytiscinae

Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Dytiscinae

Dytiscus carolinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Dytiscidae
Subfamily:  | Dytiscinae
Leach, 1815

Dytiscinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 20 genera and 380 described species in Dytiscinae.[1][2][3][4]

Cybister fimbriolatus Larva of Aciliini

## Genera

* Acilius Leach, 1817
* Aethionectes Sharp, 1882
* Austrodytes Watts, 1978
* Cybister Curtis, 1827
* Dytiscus Linnaeus, 1758
* Eretes Laporte, 1833
* Graphoderus Dejean, 1833
* Hydaticus Leach, 1817
* Hyderodes Hope, 1838
* Megadytes Sharp, 1882
* Notaticus Zimmermann, 1928
* Onychohydrus Schaum and White, 1847
* Regimbartina Chatanay, 1911
* Rhantaticus Sharp, 1880
* Sandracottus Sharp, 1882
* Spencerhydrus Sharp, 1882
* Sternhydrus Brinck, 1945
* Thermonectus Dejean, 1833
* Tikoloshanes Omer-Cooper, 1956

## References

1. ↑ "Dytiscinae Subfamily Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/252412. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
2. ↑ "Dytiscinae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678851. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
3. ↑ Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology". ZooKeys 702: 45-112.
4. ↑ Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.

* D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC 43253.
* 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.
* Nilsson, Anders N. (2001). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera), 395.

## Further reading

* Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9
* Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
* Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

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