Subfamily Dytiscinae Leach 1815 (predaceous diving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Alternative spelling: Dytiscidae

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

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

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Lawrence and Newton 1995, LeConte 1861, Nilsson 2001 and Yang et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Agabinae, Angaragabus, Aubehydrinae, Colymbetinae, Copelatinae, Coptotominae, Cretodytes, Cybisterinae, Hydroporinae, Laccophilinae, Liadytiscinae, Necticus palustris, Palaeodytes, Sinoporus

Subtaxa: Aciliini Ambarticini Dytiscini Eretini Hydaticini

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Type: Dytiscus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Japan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: California, Washington)

• Miocene of Germany (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Idaho, Washington)

• Oligocene of France (2)

• Eocene of France (1), United States (1: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)

Total: 24 collections including 29 occurrences

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