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Family Gyrinidae - Whirligig Beetles


Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony...
By Miller K.B., Bergsten J.
Systematic Entomology 37: 706–746, 2012
Full title: Phylogeny and classification of whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae): relaxed-clock model outperforms parsimony and time-free Bayesian analyses

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The New World whirligig beetles of the genus Dineutus Macleay, 1825 (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae, Gyrininae, Dineutini)
By Gustafson GT, Miller KB
Zookeys; 476: 1-135, 2015

The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition
By Christopher G. Majka & Rex D. Kenner
Zookeys, 2009
Citation: Majka CG, Kenner RD (2009) The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition. In: Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. Zookeys 22: 355-372.

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Classification, distribution, and phylogeny of North American (north of Mexico) species of Gyrinus Müller (Coleoptera, Gyrinida
By Sule Oygur & G.W. Wolfe
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1991
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By far, reputed to be one of the best reference sources for the Nearctic fauna.

Taxonomic revision of genus Gyretes Brullé (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) from America North of Mexico.
By Babin, J. and Y. Alarie.
The Coleopterists Bulletin 58(4): 538-567., 2004
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Babin, J. and Y. Alarie. 2004. Taxonomic revision of genus Gyretes Brullé (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) from America North of Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 58(4): 538-567.

Abstract

Species of the genus Gyretes Brullé of America north of Mexico are reviewed. Morphological variation among species is characterized using multivariate analyses.

Three species are recognized:

Gyretes iricolor Young,
G. sinuatus LeConte and
G. torosus new species.

Gyretes compressus LeConte and G. californicus Régimbart are synonymized under G. sinuatus new synonymies.

Systematics and evolution of the whirligig beetle tribe Dineutini (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrininae)
By G.T. Gustafson and K.B. Miller
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX: 1-33, 2017

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)

A treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Vol. I
By Erwin T.L.
Pensoft Series Faunistica 66. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow. 323 pp., 2007
Full title: A treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume I (Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1).