Hydrotrupes Sharp 1882 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Full reference: D. Sharp. 1882. On aquatic carnivorous Coleoptera or Dytiscidae. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2:179-1003

Parent taxon: Agabini according to R. A. Gómez and A. L. Damgaard 2014

See also Sharp 1882

Sister taxon: Platambus

Subtaxa: Hydrotrupes prometheus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (ZMUC/NHMD collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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