Biology:Elmidae
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Short description: Family of beetles
| Elmidae | |
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| Ancyronyx schillhammeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Superfamily: | Byrrhoidea |
| Family: | Elmidae Curtis, 1830 |
| Subfamilies | |
| Diversity | |
| at least 150 genera | |
Elmidae, commonly known as riffle beetles, is a family of beetles in the superfamily Byrrhoidea described by John Curtis in 1830. Both adults and larvae are usually aquatic, living under rocks in fast-flowing shallow areas of streams, such as riffles, feeding on algae and biofilms.[1] There are more than 150 genera and 1,500 described species in Elmidae.[2][3][4][5] The oldest record of the group is Cretohypsilara from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ White, D.S. (2009) (in en), Coleoptera (Beetles) in Aquatic Ecosystems, Elsevier, pp. 144–156, doi:10.1016/b978-012370626-3.00160-5, ISBN 978-0-12-370626-3, https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780123706263001605, retrieved 2020-09-30
- ↑ "Elmidae Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114093.
- ↑ "Elmidae". https://www.gbif.org/species/7826.
- ↑ "Family Elmidae Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/25587.
- ↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMID 21594053. PMC 3088472. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4001.
- ↑ Cai, Chenyang; Maier, Crystal A.; Huang, Diying (2018-09-01). "A new riffle beetle in Upper Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elmidae)" (in en). Cretaceous Research 89: 154–159. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.022. ISSN 0195-6671. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667117302343.
Further reading
- Hinton, H. E. (1940). "A monographic revision of the Mexican water beetles of the family Elmidae". Novitates Zoologicae 42 (2): 217–396. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/32478.
- LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732.
- Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. 2006. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.
- Sanderson, M. W. (1953). "A revision of the Nearctic genera of Elmidae". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 26 (4): 148–163.
- Shepard, William D. (2002). "Family 43: Elmidae Curtis, 1830". American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 117–120. ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q139220 entry
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