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Subfamily Agabinae

Dytiscidae - Ilybiosoma pond beetle - Agabus ILybius erichsoni (Gemminger & Harold) - Ilybius erichsoni - male Ilybius biguttulus ??? - Ilybius - female Diving beetle - Agabus Unknown Coleoptera - Beetles - Ilybius Agabus semipunctatus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Agabinae
Explanation of Names
Agabinae Thomson 1867
Numbers
just over 100 spp. in 6 genera in our area and ~420 spp. in ~9 genera of 3 tribes total(1)
Identification
keys to genera based on current concepts in (2)
Range
much of the world(2)
Works Cited
1.A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)
Nilsson and Hajek. 2019. Distributed by authors.
2.Diving beetles of the world: systematics and biology of the Dytiscidae
Miller K.B., Bergsten J. 2016. JHU Press. 336 pp.