Family Hydroscaphidae LeConte 1874 (skiff beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydroscaphidae

Full reference: J. L. LeConte. 1874. Descriptions of new Coleoptera chiefly from the Pacific slope of North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5:43-72

Parent taxon: Sphaeriusoidea according to A. G. Kirejtshuk et al. 2023

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Sphaeriidae, Sphaeriusidae, Torridincolidae

Subtaxa: Hydroscaphinae Leehermaniinae Triamyxinae

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Type: Hydroscapha

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)

• Triassic of Poland (1), United States (2: North Carolina)

• Permian to Triassic of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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