Family Dryopidae Billberg 1820 (long toed water beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dryopidae

Alternative spelling: Dryopides

Invalid subtaxa: Parnidae Leach 1817 [replaced name], Parnidea Leach 1817 [replaced name]

Full reference: G. J. Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg 1-138

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Actinocerites, Brachypodites, Callirhipidae, Chelonariidae, Cneoglossidae, Elmidae, Eulichadidae, Expansifemoria, Heteroceridae, Jiuquanocoleus, Limnichidae, Lutrochidae, Mastigocoleidae, Psephenidae, Ptilodactylidae

Subtaxa: Dryops Helichus Helmis Pomatinus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (19)

• Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado)

Total: 27 collections including 31 occurrences

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