Dytiscinae

Dytiscinae is a subfamily of predaceous diving beetles in the family Dytiscidae. There are at least 20 genera and 380 described species in Dytiscinae.[1][2][3][4]

Cybister fimbriolatus

Larva of Aciliini

Dytiscinae
Dytiscus carolinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Dytiscidae
Subfamily:	Dytiscinae Leach, 1815

Genera

• Acilius Leach, 1817
• Aethionectes Sharp, 1882
• Austrodytes Watts, 1978
• Cybister Curtis, 1827
• Dytiscus Linnaeus, 1758
• Eretes Laporte, 1833
• Graphoderus Dejean, 1833
• Hydaticus Leach, 1817
• Hyderodes Hope, 1838
• Megadytes Sharp, 1882
• Notaticus Zimmermann, 1928
• Onychohydrus Schaum and White, 1847
• Prodaticus
• Regimbartina Chatanay, 1911
• Rhantaticus Sharp, 1880
• Sandracottus Sharp, 1882
• Spencerhydrus Sharp, 1882
• Sternhydrus Brinck, 1945
• Thermonectus Dejean, 1833
• Tikoloshanes Omer-Cooper, 1956

References

1. "Dytiscinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
2. "Dytiscinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
3. Bilton DT, Ribera I (2017). "A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology". ZooKeys 702: 45-112.
4. Bousquet Y (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys 245: 1-1722.

• D.J. Larson, Y. Alarie, and R.E. Roughley. (2001). Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with emphasis on the fauna of Canada and Alaska. NRC 43253.
• Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
• Nilsson, Anders N. (2001). World Catalogue of Insects, volume 3: Dytiscidae (Coleoptera), 395.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). (21 December 2000) American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 978-0-8493-1925-9
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.