Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Alternative spelling: Hydrophilii
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Hydrophilidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Fikáček et al. 2014 and Short and Fikáček 2013
Sister taxa: Acidocerinae, Alegorius, Aposphinctus, Chaetarthriinae, Creniphilites, Cretosperchus, Enochrinae, Escheria, Escheria bella, Escheria ovalis, Georissinae, Hydrocharis, Hydrochinae, Mesosperchus schultzi, Orphnospercheus, Paraspercheus, Penitus, Philhydrus, Prospercheus, Protochares, Regimbartia, Rygmodinae, Spercheinae, Sphaeridiinae, Sphaeridium melanarium, Sternolophus
Subtaxa: Amphiopini Berosini Cymbiodyta austerus Hydrobiusini Hydrophilini Laccobiini
Type: Hydrophilus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), Japan (3), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (5: California, Colorado, Washington)
• Pliocene of Japan (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (1), Germany (8), Greece (1), Switzerland (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)
• Oligocene of France (6), Germany (5)
• Eocene of Germany (3), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 70 collections including 126 occurrences