Taxonavigation

Elaphrus fuliginosus

Familiae (17): Amphizoidae - Aspidytidae - Carabidae - Dytiscidae - Gyrinidae - Haliplidae - Hygrobiidae - Meruidae - Noteridae - Rhysodidae - Trachypachidae - †Colymbotethidae - †Coptoclavidae - †Liadytidae - †Parahygrobiidae - †Triaplidae - †Tritarsidae
[source: Bouchard et al. (2011)]

• Genus incertae sedis: †Protodytiscus

References

• Beutel, R.G.; Ribera, I.; Balke, M. 2010: 3. Adephaga (addendum). Introduction and phylogeny. P. 21 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
• Beutel, R.G.; Ribera, I. 2005: 7. Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806. Pp. 53-55 in: Beutel, R.G.; Leschen, R.A.B. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 1: Morphology and systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110171309 contents limited preview
• Beutel, R.G.; Ribera, I.; Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P. 2008: A genus-level supertree of Adephaga (Coleoptera). Organisms, diversity & evolution, 7: 255–269. PDF

• Beutel, R.G. et al. (Early View, 2012): On the phylogeny and evolution of Mesozoic and extant lineages of Adephaga (Coleoptera, Insecta). Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00420.x Reference page. 

• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 Reference page. 

• Bousquet, Y. 2012. Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 Reference page. 
• Darilmaz, M. C.; Incekara, Ü.; Vafaei, R. 2013: Contributions to the knowledge of Iranian aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera). Spixiana, 36(1): 149–152. full article (PDF)
• Dressler, C.; Beutel, R.G. 2010: The morphology and evolution of the adult head of Adephaga (Insecta: Coleoptera). Arthropod systematics & phylogeny, 68(2): 239–287. PDF
• Hunt, T.; Bergsten, J.; Levkanicova, Z.; Papadopoulou, A.; St. John, O.; Wild, R.; Hammond, P.M.; Ahrens, D.; Balke, M.; Caterino, M.S.; Gomez-Zurita, J.; Ribera, I.; Barraclough, T.G.; Bocakova, M.; Bocak, L.; Vogler, A.P. 2007: A comprehensive phylogeny of beetles reveals the evolutionary origins of a superradiation. Science, 318: 1913–1916. DOI: 10.1126/science.1146954
• Maddison, D.R.; Moore, W.; Baker, M.D.; Ellis, T.M.; Ober, K.A.; Cannone, J.J.; Gutell, R.R. 2009: Monophyly of terrestrial adephagan beetles as indicated by three nuclear genes (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Trachypachidae). Zoologica scripta, 38: 43–62. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00359.x PDF
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1 ed. I. Löbl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2003 and 2004, p.26 ISBN 87-88757-73-0

• Salah, M. & Cueto, J.A.R. 2015. An annotated checklist of the aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Egypt III. Noteridae, Haliplidae and Gyrinidae. Zootaxa 4052(2): 187–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.3 . Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

• van Vondel, B.J., Ostovan, H. & Ghahari, H. 2017. An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4216(3): 225–246. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.3.2 . Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Maddison, David R. 1995. Adephaga. Ground beetles, tiger beetles, whirligigs, predacious diving beetles, wrinkled bark beetles, and others. Version 01 January 1995 (under construction) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of beetles of Russia

Vernacular names

العربية: خنافس مفترسة
čeština: Masožraví
English: adephagans
español: Adéfaga
suomi: Petokuoriaiset
magyar: Ragadozó bogarak
日本語: オサムシ亜目 (食肉亜目)
한국어: 식육아목
lietuvių: Plėšrieji vabalai
македонски: Месојадни бубачки
polski: Chrząszcze drapieżne
русский: Плотоядные жуки
svenska: Rovskalbaggar
українська: Хижі жуки
中文: 肉食亚目

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