Genus Hygrotus

Classification · Identification

Predacious Diving Beetle - Hygrotus sayi

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)

Family Dytiscidae (Predaceous Diving Beetles)

Subfamily Hydroporinae

Genus Hygrotus

Identification

"Epipleuron with a transverse carina at humeral angle" (ref. Am. Beetles), which you can see as "the raised line" on the elytra "shoulders" in this ventral image

. This characteristic separates Hygrotus from the big genus Hydroporus.

Contributed by tom murray on 30 April, 2006 - 7:30pm
Additional contributions by Tim Moyer
Last updated 12 May, 2008 - 11:27am

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