Water Scavanger Beetles
Hydrophilidae
(after Hangay & Zborowski 2010): Hydrophilids are shaped like an inverted boat, with a convex dorsal surface while being flat below. They are usually dark in colour or olive-brown, sometimes reddish or black, rarely metallic, and are 1-40mm in length. Their antennae are 7-9 segmented, short, with a 3-segmented club, cupuliform, with maxillary palps usually longer than their antennae. The metatarsum are often keeled with a sharp spine at the rear, and their hind tarsi are often flattened and equipped with thick setae. Their tarsal formula is 5-5-5, rarely 4-4-4.
Publications
Hangay G, Zborowski P (2010): A Guide to the Beetles of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Biphyllidae
- Bostrichidae
- Buprestidae
- Carabidae
- Cerambycidae
- Chrysomelidae
- Cleridae
- Curculionidae
- Dytiscidae
- Elateridae
- Heteroceridae
- Hydrophilidae
- Leiodidae
- Limnichidae
- Mycetophagidae
- Nitidulidae
- Oedemeridae
- Rhipiphoridae
- Scarabaeidae
- Scraptiidae
- Silvanidae
- Staphylinidae
- Tenebrionidae
- Trogidae
- Zopheridae
All classes
- Arachnida
- Crustacea
- Insecta
- Orthoptera - Caelifera (Grasshoppers)
- Hymenoptera excl. Formicidae (bees and wasps)
- Blattodea s. str. (Cockroaches)
- Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Dermaptera (earwigs)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos)
- Hemiptera - Heteroptera (True Bugs)
- Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha (aphids, scales etc.)
- Hemiptera - Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas, planthoppers)
- Hymenoptera - Formicidae (Ants)
- Trichoptera (Caddisflies)
- Myriapoda