Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Synonym: Escheriidae Kolbe 1880
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Hydrophiloidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981, Fikáček et al. 2017, Fikáček et al. 2010, Fikáček and Schmied 2013, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Tillyard 1916, Tillyard 1918, Tillyard 1923 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Cretotaenia, Epimetopidae, Georissidae, Helophoridae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilopsia, Laetopsia, Sinosperchopsis, Spercheidae
Subtaxa: Acidocerinae Alegorius Aposphinctus Chaetarthriinae Creniphilites Cretosperchus Enochrinae Escheria Escheria bella Escheria ovalis Georissinae Hydrocharis Hydrochinae Hydrophilinae Mesosperchus schultzi Orphnospercheus Paraspercheus Penitus Philhydrus Prospercheus Protochares Regimbartia Rygmodinae Spercheinae Sphaeridiinae Sphaeridium melanarium Sternolophus
Type: Hydrophilus
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