Hydrophilidae Latreille 1802
Hydrophilidae The aquatic members of the Hydrophilidae (the present account does not treat terrestrial species in the subfamily Sphaeridiinae) occur in a wide variety of aquatic environments, most of them in standing water and lentic habitats. Most species are scavengers, feeding on various kinds of...
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Summary: | Hydrophilidae The aquatic members of the Hydrophilidae (the present account does not treat terrestrial species in the subfamily Sphaeridiinae) occur in a wide variety of aquatic environments, most of them in standing water and lentic habitats. Most species are scavengers, feeding on various kinds of decaying plant material, or else they feed on living plants such as algae (Smetana 1988). : Published as part of Majka, Christopher, 2008, The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition, pp. 239-260 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 250, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401 : {"references": ["Smetana A (1988) Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142: 1 - 316."]} |
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