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Dytiscinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy

Dytiscinae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant. Its type is Dytiscus.

It was assigned to Dytiscidae by LeConte (1861), Lawrence and Newton (1995), Nilsson (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011), Yang et al. (2019) and Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa

Aciliini, Ambarticini, Dytiscini, Eretini, Hydaticini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1815	Dytiscinae Leach p. 84
1861	Dytiscidae LeConte p. 39
1995	Dytiscinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2001	Dytiscinae Nilsson p. 265
2011	Dytiscinae Bouchard et al. p. 150
2019	Dytiscinae Yang et al. p. 2
2022	Dytiscinae Cai et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Adephaga
family	Dytiscidae	()
subfamily	Dytiscinae
subfamily	Dytiscinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Dytiscinae Leach 1815

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Tr. Aciliini Thomson 1867

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G. Acilius Leach 1817

†Acilius florissantensis Wickham 1909

†Acilius oeningensis Heer 1847

†Acilius praesulcatus Lomnicki 1894

G. Graphoderus Dejean 1833

Graphoderus austriacus Sturm 1834

†Graphoderus heeri Nilsson 2001

Invalid names: Dytiscus areolatus Heer 1862 [replaced]