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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Whirligig Beetles (Gyrinidae) » Gyrininae

Subfamily Gyrininae

Classification · Numbers · Works Cited
small Whirligig Beetle - Gyrinus Dineutus assimilis? - Dineutus emarginatus Water Beetle - Gyrinus Diving Beetle maybe ? - Gyrinus Beetle - Gyrinus Unidentified Whirligig Beetle - Dineutus whirligig - Gyrinus Gyrinid - Dineutus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Gyrinidae (Whirligig Beetles)
Subfamily Gyrininae
Numbers
3 tribes, with 3 genera in our area and 12 genera worldwide(1)
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony...
Miller K.B., Bergsten J. 2012. Systematic Entomology 37: 706–746.
Contributed by v belov on 25 January, 2015 - 8:18pm

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