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Genus Hygrotus

Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hygrotus picatus Predatious diving beetle of some sort. - Hygrotus patruelis Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hygrotus impressopunctatus Dytiscidae - Hygrotus impressopunctatus - male Dytiscid of sorts.... - Hygrotus nubilus Hygrotus nubilus? - Hygrotus Hydroporinae - Hygrotus Water Beetle - Hygrotus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)
Subfamily Hydroporinae
Tribe Hygrotini
Genus Hygrotus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Many species brought back from Coelambus(1)
Explanation of Names
Hygrotus Stephens 1828
Numbers
36 spp. in our area, ~130 total(2)
Identification

subhumeral carina (marked by curly brackets) at the epipleuron separates Hygrotus from Hydroporus
Key to species in (3)