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Family Dytiscidae Leach 1815 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Alternative spelling: Dytiscides

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Adephaga according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995, LeConte 1861, Wappler 2003 and Yang et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Amarodes, Amphizoidae, Amphoxyne, Carabidae, Carabiformia, Chimaerocoleus, Cicindelidae, Colymbotethidae, Coptoclavidae, Curculionites, Dytiscoidea, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Liadytidae, Longurius, Memptus, Noteridae, Oryctites, Parahygrobiidae, Pseudomorphinae, Trachypachidae, Triadogyrus, Triaplidae, Tritarsusidae

Subtaxa: Agabinae Angaragabus Aubehydrinae Colymbetinae Copelatinae Coptotominae Cretodytes Cybisterinae Dytiscinae Hydroporinae Laccophilinae Liadytiscinae Necticus palustris Palaeodytes Sinoporus

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Type: Dytiscus

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