Family Gyrinidae Latreille 1810 (whirligig beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Gyrinidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1810. Considérations Générales sur l'Ordre Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; Avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres, Disposés en Familles 1-444

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

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

Subtaxa: Anagyrinus Coptogyrinus Gyrininae Gyrinopsis Protogyrininus Spanglerogyrinae Tunguskagyrus

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Type: Gyrinus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Greenland (2), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (2: Washington)

• Pliocene of Japan (3)

• Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (1)

• Eocene of Poland (1)

• Paleocene of France (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Cretaceous of Australia (1), China (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (3), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of Germany (1), Kazakhstan (1), Luxembourg (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (3), Switzerland (1)

• Permian of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 60 collections including 74 occurrences

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