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Hydaticus
Sign in to saveHydaticus is a genus of predatory water beetle belonging to the family Dytiscidae. Hydaticus can be found throughout most of the world. There are 150 described species and 12 subspecies in two subgenera in the genus Hydaticus.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 408
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Dytiscidae
- Collections
- PSUC, AM, OMNH, SAM, NRM, NMV
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dytiscidae
- Image
- Hydaticus batchianensis.jpg
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- Subgenus ''Hydaticus''
- Subgenus ''[[Prodaticus]]''
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Hydaticus is a genus of predatory water beetle belonging to the family Dytiscidae. Hydaticus can be found throughout most of the world. There are 150 described species and 12 subspecies in two subgenera in the genus Hydaticus.
==Subgenus Hydaticus== These seven species are in the subgenus Hydaticus: Hydaticus aruspex Clark, 1864 Hydaticus cinctipennis Aubé, 1838 Hydaticus continentalis J. Balfour-Brown, 1944 Hydaticus piceus LeConte, 1863 Hydaticus schelkovnikovi Zaitzev, 1913 Hydaticus seminiger (De Geer, 1774) Hydaticus transversalis (Pontoppidan, 1763)
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