The Water Beetles of Florida

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By Epler J.H.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Tallahassee. 414 pp., 2010
Cite: 414519 with citation markup [cite:414519]

Full title: The Water Beetles of Florida - an identification manual for the families Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Helophoridae, Hydraenidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Noteridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae and Scirtidae
Full text (~150MB)
Pages of the PDF:
Key to families: larvae 16 Adults 21 · Chrysomelidae 27 · Curculionidae 55 · Dryopidae 69 · Dytiscidae 75 · Elmidae 195 · Gyrinidae 221 · Haliplidae 289 · Helophoridae 255 · Hydraenidae 257 · Hydrochidae 265 · Hydrophilidae 275 · Noteridae 337 · Psephenidae 353 · Ptilodactylidae 357 · Scirtidae 359 · Checklist 403
[the first edition of the Manual(1) had been extensively cited on guide pages]

Contributed by v belov on 21 June, 2010 - 1:03pm
Last updated 5 November, 2017 - 8:26pm

alternative URL

the Florida state page starts to load but never finishes, Here's an alternative at Epler's own site: http://johnepler.com/FLWB2010.pdf. Loads very slowly though

… Steve Scholnick, 13 February, 2019 - 2:57pm

Full citation

Epler, J.H. 2010. The Water Beetles of Florida - an identification manual for the families Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Helophoridae, Hydraenidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Noteridae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae and Scirtidae. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL. 399 + iv pp.

… Mike Quinn, 2 February, 2011 - 5:01am

Awesome!

Thanks for the link v.

… Lynette Elliott, 1 July, 2010 - 5:31pm

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