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Water scavenger beetles of the genus Hydrophilus Mueller, 1764 - atlas of beetles of Russia

Oleg Berlov, Eduard Berlov


Superfamily HYDROPHILOIDEA (atlas of beetles of Russia)
Family Hydrophilidae (atlas of water scavenger beetles of Russia)

Genus Hydrophilus Mueller, 1764
Type species: Hydrous piceus Linné, 1758.

    All records from Southern Siberia demand confirmation.


The illustrated index to species of the genus Hydrophilus of Russia


Hydrophilus
piceus

Hydrophilus
aterrimus

Hydrophilus
dauricus

Hydrophilus
acuminatus


Larva of Hydrophilus dauricus :



References:


BERLOV E.Ya., 1978: Hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae) of Irkutsk province. // Nasekomye Vostochnoi Sibiri, Irkutsk: 65-72. [in Russian].

KIREJTSHUK A.G., 2001: Coleoptera (Beetles) // In book: Key to invertebrates from sweet water of Russia and adjacent territories.- Volume 5, Sankt-Peterburg, Nauka, pp. 79-367.

SHATROVSKIY A.G. 1989: Genus Hydrophilus Müll. (Hydrous L.). // Key to the insects of Russian Far East of the USSR (Vol. III, Part 1).- Leningrad, Nauka, 287-288.

JAKOBSON G.G. 1905-1916: Genus Hydrous // Zhuki Rossii i Zapadnoi Evropy.- Sankt-Petersburg: A.F.Devrien, 850 pp.

KLAUSNITZER B. 1984: Käfer im und am Wasser.- A.Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg Lutherstadt, 148 S.