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Family Haliplidae - Crawling Water Beetles


Colorado Haliplidae (Coleoptera): biogeography and identification
By Durfee R., Jasper S.H., Kondriateff B.C.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 78: 41-70, 2005

Revision of the Nearctic Haliplidae (Coleoptera)
By van Vondel B.J.
Tijdschr. Entomol. 163: 101-298, 2021

Haliplidae of Eastern Canada
By H.V. Ashbee, S.A. Marshall, Y. Alarie
Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 32: 1-80, 2017

The Haliplidae of Atlantic Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition
By Christopher G. Majka, Bernhard J. van Vondel, & Reginald Webster
ZooKeys, 2009
Citation: Majka CG, Van Vondel BJ, Webster RP (2009) The Haliplidae of Atlantic Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition. In: Majka CJ, Klimaszewski J (Eds.) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. ZooKeys 22: 249-266.

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Taxonomy, classification, reconstructed phylogeny and biogeography of nearctic species of Brychius ...
By Tonya Mousseau and Robert E. Roughley
The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 351-397, 2007
Tonya Mousseau and Robert E. Roughley, Taxonomy, classification, reconstructed phylogeny and biogeography of nearctic species of Brychius Thomson (Coleoptera: Haliplidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin, 61(3): 351-397, 2007.

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Revision of the Nearctic Haliplidae (Coleoptera)
By Van Vondel, Bernhard J.
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163:101-298, 2021
Includes descriptions to all species found in the region, several new synonymies, keys to species, color photographs of all species, etc. One species is described as new. Peltodytes roughleyi n. sp. is similar to P. callosus.

Key to adult Peltodytes of the U.S. and Canada (Coleoptera: Haliplidae)
By Warren U. Brigham
Illinois Natural History Survey
Available here:
https://www.matthewpintar.net/uploads/2/9/8/5/29857083/peltodytes_key.pdf

A treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Vol. III
By Erwin T.L.
Pensoft Series Faunistica 99. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 412 pp., 2011
Full title: A treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume III (Carabidae – Loxomeriformes, Melaeniformes)