HYDROPHILOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(scavenger water beetles)

HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
GEORISSIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 1 references
HELOPHORIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 3 subtaxa 3 trophisms 2 references
Helophorus
a genus of scavenger water beetles
Genus 3 subtaxa 3 trophisms
HYDROCHIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 2 references
HYDROPHILIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 9 subtaxa 6 trophisms 12 references
SPERCHEIDAE
a family of scavenger water beetles
Family 2 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyHYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)
Series Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
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 HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Foster, G.N., Bilton, D.T. & Friday, L.E. 2014 Keys to adults of the Water beetles of Britain & Ireland (part 2) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 4, Part 5b, 2nd edition edition, 126pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Hansen, M. 1987 The Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 18, 234pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

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

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to HYDROPHILOIDEA (scavenger water beetles):

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