The first comprehensive book in more than a century to reveal the diversity and natural
history of diving beetles. Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is …

This extremely informative and useful volume covers Canada and Alaska in full and most of
the United States. It includes 100 pages on larvae, with descriptions and keys to genera for …

Characters from adult morphology are analyzed cladistically to infer the phylogeny of the
family Dytiscidae. The analysis is based on examination of 233 species of Dytiscidae and …

A comprehensive higher‐level phylogeny of diving beetles (D ytiscidae) based on larval
characters is presented. Larval morphology and chaetotaxy of a broad range of genera and …

Abstract Although the Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) are among the most common insect
inhabitants of freshwaters, knowledge of their larval morphology is scanty throughout the …

The phylogenetics and higher (family-group) classification of extant members of the beetle
family Dytiscidae (Coleoptera), or predaceous diving beetles, is reviewed and reassessed. A …

Through an analysis of the primary setae and pores (campaniform sensilla) of first-instar
larvae of 32 species of Colymbetinae, 33 species belonging to other dytiscid subfamilies …

An analysis of the primary setae and pores (campaniform sensilla) of first instars of 32
species of Colymbetinae, 61 species belonging to other dytiscid subfamilies, and seven …

A provisional larval groundplan of the family Hygrobiidae is provided through descriptions of
internal and external features of three of six extant species, Hygrobia hermanni (Fabricius …

Aspidytidae, or cliff water beetles, are a recently discovered family of Adephaga, which have
an apparently disjunct distribution in China and South Africa. The larvae of Aspidytidae are …