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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Predaceous Diving Beetles (Dytiscidae) » Hydroporinae » Hygrotini » Hygrotus

Genus Hygrotus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
small water beetle - Hygrotus infuscatus punctate Diving beetle - Hygrotus sayi Predaceous Diving Beetle - Hygrotus unguicularis - male Water beetle from Alberta 10.07.08 - Hygrotus marklini - male Dytiscidae - Hygrotus impressopunctatus - male Liodessus? - Hygrotus Hygrotus Potential Hygrotus punctilineatus - 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)
Works Cited
1.A new classification of the tribe Hygrotini Portevin, 1929 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae)
Villastrigo et al. 2017. Magnolia Press, Zootaxa 4317 (3) 499-529.
2.A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga)
Nilsson and Hajek. 2019. Distributed by authors.
3.Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska
D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. 2001. NRC 43253.
Contributed by tom murray on 30 April, 2006 - 7:30pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Tim Moyer, v belov, Claude Tessier
Last updated 15 June, 2020 - 9:45am

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