GYRINIDAE Latreille, 1810
(whirligig beetles)

GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
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Genus 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)
SuborderADEPHAGA (water and ground 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 GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Balfour-Brown, F. 1940 British water beetles Vols 127, 134 & 141, The Ray Society, London
Balfour-Browne, F.L. 1953 *** Coleoptera: Hydradephaga ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IV, Part 3, 33pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Denton, J. 2013 Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera 70pp
Foster, G. 2009 Module 7: advanced identification of water beetles (Coleoptera) https://www.fba.org.uk/identification-freshwater-invertebrates-species-level-distance-learning-course
Foster, G. 2008 Whirligigs in Britain and Ireland British Wildlife Vol 20, No. 1: 28-35.
Foster, G.N. & Friday, L.E. 2011 Keys to adults of the Water beetles of Britain & Ireland (part 1) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 4, Part 5, 2nd edition edition, 143pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 3: Adephaga 2. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 3, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Holmen, M. 1987 The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark, Volume I. Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae and Noteridae Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, Vol 20, 168pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.

GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Foster, G.N. 2000 A review of the scarce and threatened Coleoptera of Great Britain. Part 3: Aquatic Coleoptera 226pp, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough

Acid Mires

Boyce, D. 2004 A review of the invertebrate assemblages of acid mires Research Reports, Report no 592, 109pp, English Nature

Journals

Balfour-Browne Club Latissimus Published for/by:Balfour-Browne Club

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 8 images of GYRINIDAE (whirligig beetles)
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