Superfamily Hydrophiloidea Latreille 1802 (water scavenger beetle)
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Staphyliniformia according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Fikáček et al. 2010 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Histeroidea, Scarabaeoidea, Staphylinoidea
Subtaxa: Cretotaenia Epimetopidae Georissidae Helophoridae Hydrochidae Hydrophilidae Hydrophilopsia Laetopsia Sinosperchopsis Spercheidae
Type: Hydrophilus
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