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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Majka, Christopher
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Hydrophilidae
Canada
Alaska
Prince Edward Island
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793215
https://zenodo.org/record/3793215
Description
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."]}

Similar Items